She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: "I guess I'll find out.

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

Here we have both a paradox, and a beautiful symmetry. It is a duality. I am the earth and you are the moon, and you are the earth and I am the moon.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.

That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.