You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.

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.

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

We are not impotent. We can choose how we allow circumstances and experiences to influence us. We can change our interpretation of what happened and we can adjust our response to this interpretation.

The more I pray, the more I feel God's comfort.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.

Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.