I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.

Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.

A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you

A real friend sees past the trouble and into your heart

There are all kinds of ways to be in the world. And no matter what has happened to us, or what we have been told, or what we have believed, we get to choose our way.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

Dare to dream again.For dreaming is the language of your soul, And nothing your soul truly desires could ever be wrong or impossible.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

When they do let them sustain on screen from head to toe, though, then you know they must think the person is a good dancer.

One must be strict even in little things.

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.

Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.