“At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.”

“Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.”

“The chaplain has a good life, an easy life. He is well educated, modestly well-to-do, and awkwardly handsome. He has faced no particularly compelling struggle, aside from frequently being dumped by women he wished to marry. His friends and family are in good health. And, sometimes, when one is not blessed with crisis, one must manufacture it.”

“The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.”

“But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”

“If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know?”

“But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail”