Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it's a British expression. There's no couture in their darling.

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.

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

His voice was languidly dense, as if he was a little slow on the uptake, but Strike knew that tone came from the man's feeling of complete control.

Anxiety is the poison of human life the parent of many sins and of more miseries.... Can it alter the cause or unravel the mystery of human events?

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.

The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.