one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

things never seem as bad as they are.

It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.

... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

You don't have to become what you already are, which is a relief.

Oh, well, she decided as her eyes began to close, it is better to love foolishly than to hate bitterly. I hope I am wiser than I was and more kind.

Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up. Ray Levine was one of those people.

Chance works for us when we are good captains.

Nora: I have questions. Patch: I should have known you've only been keeping me around for answers. Nora: Well, that and your kisses. Anyone ever tell you you're an incredible kisser?

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.

There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

I'm very proud of Family Ties. It's meant a lot to a lot of people.