Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.

Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.

There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.

And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.

There is a whole lot more to life than winning.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

Don't be alarmed, the god I am trying to kill is the one I hate, not the one I love

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.

I do think that more people are feminists than they realize.

Larry David makes me laugh.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.