But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.

Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.

There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.

And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.

There is a whole lot more to life than winning.

When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.

Be a wave of kindness that touches the hearts of everyone.

Shames the shadow of love she thought

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

I think the human spirit is a real powerful spirit. It has no limits and it has no ends. And I hate to see it put in any kind of box - pink or green.

Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful.

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.