“The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.”

“Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.”

“Do you ever think that people who find it tougher to say what they're feeling are the ones who feel things more intensely? As if they're the ones who really understand what it means to love someone? As if they have to keep their defenses high, because they care too much and have too much to lose?”

“Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world.”

“If love disappeared when we touched the fault-lines, it wouldn't be worth much, would it?”

“Life is too short to cower.”

“There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer.”