If we're going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others.

It's the ones you love the most who can lift you in an instant, and destroy you without trying.

To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.

But feelings aren't like thoughts, they can't be changed at will.

He just hijacks me. I love him. And I won't be able to give anyone a real chance until that's over.

Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.

Share too much and someone can hurt you.

Evil grows when good people do and say nothing.

I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.

I would rather have nothing than something that was only alright.

Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.

I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.

I think its nice when people find love, because I feel like everyone deserves it.

Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.

Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

I love everything I do and I can still remember the days of cashing my first royalty check for $2. I have such a great life, I'm proud of everything.