Wouldn’t it have been better to conserve your strength and rest?” Ildiko mused after a moment. “I’ll sleep long and hard when I’m dead. You defy death by celebrating life.

I will stand beside you through all of this, ' she said when she could finally speak. “And welcome you home with gladness when it’s over, and you return triumphant.

She sighed. “I can’t help it. I worry for you when you lead these patrols. I don’t sleep until you return."His features softened. “Then you don’t dream of me when I’m gone,

My dear, treacherous mother, ” he breathed. “What have you done?

I’ve always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event.” “Why would you ever think that?

One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it’s friends who esteem marriage that will do this

Money - it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.

If I had free time to go to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, I would rather spend it with my kids.