There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life---real life---seems to exist at one remove.

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.

A Rich Person Is One Who Does Not Want Any More Money

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

One of the things about working on Star Trek that was always so great was that we all got along as well as we did. We really became family.

In difficult times, in dark times, some people shine.

I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New heavens supposed; New states, new souls.

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.