But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.