“Happiness means never apologizing for who you are!”

“Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. They long for fathers who have themselves survived intact. Boys do not ache for their father's masculinity. They ache for their fathers' hearts.”

“The bonds of silence and protection run deeper, for the moment, than his trust in me.”

“I guess there's so much more I have to learn,But if you're here with me, I know which way to turnYou always give me somewhere, somewhere I can run,You make it real for me”

“Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, 'I drank what?'...”

“It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.”

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”