Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started meeting people and talking to them, and the more I heard the stories, the more red flags kept popping up. There was this disconnect between this person [Todd Willingham] that I'm reading in the court records, the prosecutor's statements, and this person that I'm learning about.

You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as selfish as you, when I was your age. It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering-no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune.

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

You never know how a good quest is going to end.