But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed

Duress impacts relationships in one of two ways. It either tears people apart... binding them tightly in a common objective.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns

Once a man sees what is possible, and makes just a few changes, a whole new world opens up where he finds opportunities that he couldn’t see before.

Work with people who believe what you believe.

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.