“He never gave up. And he does that for us”

“Daddy, are you going to yell at us some more today?'Neary gazed down into her clear, guileless eyes. That was how he looked to her---a yelling machine. And she was prepared to accept more yelling because she loved him.”

“Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.”

“The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life. ”

“I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.”

“My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don’t know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.”

“The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.”