You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.
People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.
We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?
The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.
If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together. . . and I knew it.
Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.
I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!
Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.