“Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.”

“If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.”

“...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.”

“The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.”

“Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.”

“What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.”

“If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.”