Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.

Improving intelligence is possible, but it is more likely to occur if children are given the right experiences at the right ages.

Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.

Surfing is a life path. You have to really commit... You have to let go and have faith that it's gonna work out when you take off.

Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

Hydraulic fracking is very much a necessary part of the future of natural gas.

I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking.

From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.