“Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.”

“They told me never fall in love, it never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now thats just human nature.”

“Cullen?""Hey, Mom.""Can you do me a favor?" she asked in that way that implied that saying no would cause someone to die.”

“There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?”

“You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.”