What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.
Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.
No matter how good you might be in a movie, you'll never be any better. But in a play, I can be better next Tuesday. That's the thrill of it.
Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.
The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.
I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'
From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.
You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.
If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.
If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.
Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.
