"I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess it's a protest against mortality. But it's been so much fun! It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up."

“I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.”

“It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.”

“There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.”

Source : Francis I, to his mother. Written in the Letter of safe conduct given to the Viceroy of Naples for the Commander Penalosa the morning after Pavia in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 372-375), 1922.

“The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.”

Source : Shelby Foote (1995). “The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863”

“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.”

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”

“When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.”

Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

“If the door is locked, try the window.”

Source : Lynn Caine (1978). “Lifelines”