“Anger can be a useful emotion. It can help you get out of bed in the morning;”

“Our lives should have depth, which means pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones and not taking the easy way out all the time.”

“Energy is what I had lived so long beside. Energy is who I had married - the energy that permeates life, that comes out of every pore and explodes into the world.”

“[From Pat]I know someday you'll have the life you dream ...And, I know this direction will ultimately lead to happiness.However, despite what I know ...Regardless of our direction, dreams, or path ...I know we have each other and that I love you ...And that's all I need to know.Pat”

“When Pat asked me the life, he didn't mean just that I should travel and have fun, although that was certainly part of it. He also meant that there's a weight to all of our lives, and he didn't want me to be frivolous with mine. If was a tragedy that Pat's life - while fully lived - was cut short. But it's also a tragedy to live a long life that isn't meaningful.”

“He was all of those things, of course, but none of those things.”

“The right to pursue happiness sends me and other Americans, even here where we are meant to resist outside temptation, on a hunt for it. If I’m not hungry, I might seek other forms of happiness, or pleasure, which is part of my American birthright, though the most misconceived notion of them or the most difficult to realize; I can pursue several means and ways to be happy, if I am able to forget what makes me habitually sad.”