“It's a hell of a thing; killin' a man. You take away everything he ever had and ever would have.”
“Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.”
“I demoted him from The Best Man Ever to just The Best Man I’d Ever Met. Superman would have charged out (hell, he’d have flown) to get Lois Lane cookies. I was pretty sure of it.”
“Many people don’t realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.”
“He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.”
“Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!”