Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts.

You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends.

What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.

The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.

Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.

She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.Words are not small things.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

Discipline is denying ourselves in the present so as to prepare better for the future.

Not everyone understand everything.

Repeatedly I have been impressed to learn that to reach a goal never before attained, one must do things never before done.

Whether a man favors crepes and classical or cornbread and country, the complexities of life are all the same.-The Rabbi-

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.