History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

There are some people in your life who bring back old memories. And there are others - your first kiss, your first love, your first sex - who, the moment you see them, bring a spark...and something far more potent. They bring back your old life and with that, potential. And possibilities. And the feeling that if you were back in that time, life could be so very different from where you're stuck right now. That's the most tantalizing thing....I want my potential back.

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.

It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.