Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes

Every day brings new choices.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

I've always been a firm believer that you don't have to close one door in order to open another.

My name is Leland Tyler Wayne. My mom wanted to give me a name where, no matter what I wanted to do, I'd be able to do it. An astronaut. President. Whatever.

Everything in life is a double-edged sword.

Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you.

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.