There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?

When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.

The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

We all live best in our imaginations.

Make it the ultimate purpose of your life to be a great success.

The problem, of course, is that there's no way of knowing that your last good day is your Last Good Day. At the time, it's just another good day.

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

One is inspired only in solitude.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

Maybe I'm completely different from everyone else.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.