“Seems does not make it so.”

“What do you know of love, sir? Or loyalty? Or adoration suffered in deepest silence? The only love you know, sir, is what you act on stage.”

“I dream that someone will love me as a person so wholly that it won't matter whether I have gray pubic hair or sagging breast.”

“The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories.”

“Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.”

“We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.”

“Even the air seemed on fire, subtly aflame with energy as it does when you are young, when the synapses are firing wildly and death is far away.”