“..:Second chances in life don't come the way we want them nor desire. But we gotta be able to identify them, embrace them, and enjoy them:..”

“If you have wonderful moments, don't second-guess them, just enjoy them.”

“Grace isn't something we deserve, Gabriel," Julia said softly. "It comes from love. And God wraps the world in second chances and sticky little leaves and mercy, even though some people don't want them.”

“We should embrace our mistakes, not fear them, learn from them, as we know we are not perfect. We do not come from perfection, we reach for perfection.”

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart”