Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy.

It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in the way of thought.

Excuse me, " she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.

You decide every moment of every day who you are and what you believe in.The good news is you get another chance to improve in another second.

We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.

The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

Next to the highest peak of happiness, there’s the deepest gap of pain.

Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.