My inheritance is grief and sunlight and the ability to choose which to hold on to.

We both know that pain comes for us all. It's almost a relief. Because if all of us are going to someday lose the people we love most, or be lost by them, then what is there to do but live?

It’s almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I, a girl whose name is synonymous with summer, am expected to live without it.

When you've been lost as I have, " he once said, "you get good at finding your way home.

No argument, no reasoning, no blame, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.

Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

Maximum damage. It was the beginning of the end. Either we would fail or not. At least we could say we tried.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.