You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection.

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Tombstones don´t list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.

People talked about loneliness as if it were something alive and it could get you. But loneliness is something dead, it's deadness. Lonely people are slowly dying people.

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.

If you are wearing clothes that you enjoy wearing, everything you do in life becomes fun.

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

I don't know if I'm the best Pound-For-Pound fighter ever. I know I'm close. I gotta be Top 5.

I was a Democratic governor with two Republican houses.