Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.