“You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.”

“Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me. - John Tyree”

“You are a man. You are an average, lazy, boring, cowardly, woman-fearing man. Without me, that's what you would have kept on being, ad nauseam. But I made you into something. You were the best man you've ever been with me. And you know it. The only time in your life you've ever liked yourself was pretending to be someone I might like.”

“The best thing I ever did in my life was make you mine, Stace.”

“The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the love of your son! I don't have a daughter, but maybe the love of a daughter is the best, too. I am first and foremost me, but right after that, I am a mother. The best thing that I can ever be, is me. But the best gift that I will ever have, is being a mother.”

“To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.”