It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

You never know what's coming for you.

I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified.

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

I believe in the eternal security of the believer and in the insecurity of the make-believer.

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber.

I don't want to lose hope.

Don't get too attached to anything.

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