I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.

Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

Look in the mirror and say, 'There is none other like you and for that reason alone you are beautiful.

It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God’s principles in them

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The Chairman likes you.”“Is that good?”“I never date anyone my cat doesn’t like, ” Magnus said easily, and stood up.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

Praying helps me see perspectives otherwise beyond me.

Love them. Save them. Give them opportunity.