I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

Somehow, grief had seemed easier to bear when the skies were dark and a cold wind kept cats and prey inside their nests.

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

[Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".

There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live