“Give someone a foot up now and you may relieve a hand up when they reach the top”

“When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.”

“Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing.”

“Then suddenly he reached out and took her hand. "Why did you do that?" she asked softly. He looked up at the snowflakes, let them fall, melt on his face, turning it shiny. "Because when it's slippery out, sometimes we just need someone to hang on to until we find our footing.”

“To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.”

“No matter how much you reach the moon...you can never actually grab it. Even if one knows that something is unreachable it's human nature to want to try over and over...again and again..not giving up...not able to give up...dreaming that someday that hand will reach the moon.”