Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?" She taps the side of her head. "Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.

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.

And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?' Esca said very simply, 'They will kill me.' 'I am sorry, but I do not think much of that plan.' Marcus said.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Maybe, in the back of my head, I'm thinking I have to do as much as I can. It'll stop.

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.