The most powerful weapon is hope.

With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.

The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle's wings, and fly forth.

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.

Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

We tell ourselves we're here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

There is always hopefully a next.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear.