And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember?

True Success adds value to others

I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.