“sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having”

“A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity”

“Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.”

“What a difference having a friend makes.”

“You want to know what hell is? What brimstone and burining really is?"Yes"Hell is the perfect recollection of every evil thing you've done in your life, every thoughtless word, every cruel, evil thought or action. It's knowing that you could have helped your brother and didn't. Hell is clarity, Bob. It's nothing more than clarity." He leaned forward as if to confide in me, his gaze intense. "Do you want to know what heaven is?"I was locked into his gaze. "Yes."His voice was barely above a whisper, "It's the same thing.”

“Truth is patient. It can afford to be for eventually it will have its way.”

“We all got things under our skin. Everybody does. Like a glass sliver. Can't see nothin' there, but it works its way in deeper and gets to festerin' and hurts so that we're ready to just cut the whole thing out.”