Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.

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.

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second

One should learn to be happy and content by himself, for everything else life is there to give a perfect lesson.

The best way to reach your destination is to just keep going until you get there.

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

I don't like sympathetic characters.

The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face.

I don't sit around and read papers about myself. If I see myself on TV, if I don't like it, I change the channel.