There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

The beauty of wisdom lies in simplicity and humility.

My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser

How can you miss someone who’s right beside you?

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

You have a... remarkable memory." "I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.