“What is life if not a gamble?”

“suffering sweetens the reward”

“Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?""Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.”

“How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other.”

“The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.”

“The purpose of life is to find your way back to a spiritual way of thinking and living—to be able to get past the physical stuff.”

“My whole life I’d fooled myself into thinking I didn’t need his love, but I’d been wrong. Everyone needed their father’s love.”