You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.

There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.

This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

He'd barely seen me coming, and despite the horribleness of what I'd just done, I kind of wished one of my instructors had been there to grade me on such an awesome performance.

Good God. Men everywhere.

In the real world, you can make your own miracles

You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who’s harming yourself.

I've learned to be comforted in the dark spot of my mind.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.

Right now I'm just trying to be baseball-oriented.

As a person, you want to feel like you're giving back. That's something I've always enjoyed doing.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.