When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.

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.

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.

The days take forever, but they just fly by. It's so weird.

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

I lost all respect for angstroms.

When Javy Baez goes out there, man, you saw him before the game sitting on the bench, saw him waving into the camera, he's just being himself. I love that.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.

Nature itself cannot err