I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

In darkness, be your own light.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.

Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity