But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have?

Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.

But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

You know... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.

I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else.

That’s what seems the most sad to me—that neither of them even think there’s a possibility they can be together.

That's the best part. The how.

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there's more to me than that. I just haven't had the chance yet to show it.

Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.

[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.

Talking empties you of the noisy silence within.

Through light, together, let us breed positivity as a lifestyle.

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked in comic books. So, I wasn't too proud to work in something like cartoons.

Many a truth is the result of an error.

More evangelicals today will visit abortion mills as clients than as ambassadors of Jesus Christ.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.