Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

CALVIN:Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.