I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been.

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.

Just live well. Just live

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.

I didn't like it when he looked at me like that. I could never escape the feeling that i was being compared to someone else.

I want him to live if HE wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me..... we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices.

I needed to tell him, silently, that things might change, grow, or fail, but that life did go on. That we were all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person

It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort.

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

We'll build safe zones which is something that I think all of us want to see.

I hate working with artists who don't have something to say or when they have something that sounds cool but isn't really them.

When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.

Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry or fear. Go as fast as you can , but never hurry.

We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm