I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.

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.

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us.

Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.

The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon.

Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.