Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.

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.

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values.

You can't have the rainbow without the storm.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.

The opportunity to go up to Canada and play was just a blessing for me and my family.

In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it.

I like coffee exceedingly.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.