It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal

Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.

People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.

I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.

I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken.

I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger.

What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it. Where is the moment?

May you be spurred into action, not just by what you read - but all your Soul is willing to share.

To worry before the common people worries; To enjoy only after the people can enjoy.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.

This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

There is no "but" in it. The way to be an administration Senator is to vote with the Administration.