You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible

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.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

When you have a flaming hot donut in your hand and your trying to eat it your not worried about 10 and 2

I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

You can win the Champions League in the worst season.

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.