Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

Love and pain are not the same. But sometimes it feels like they should be. Love is put to test everyday. Pain is not. Yet the two of them are inseparable because true love cannot bear separation.

I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day.

If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.

Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.

Although reality can sometimes corrupt the fairy tale and alter our ambitions, some things remain unalterable. From the richest to the poorest, we start and end with family.

....And let me tell you something about families they're overrated. They're a weakness. The leave you or get taken from you or they disappoint you. Families are a liability.

You want some advice?""Yes""Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I curtsied. 'Thank you, Mr. Stansbury. And I apologize for my lack of grace.'He bowed. 'Never apologize for being courageous, Miss Withersby.

Be gentle and kind all the time.

People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

They've hit us and we've got to hit back hard, and I'm not just talking about the terrorists.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others.

Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'

No country is free unless it is democratic.

I will always have a stutter.