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

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

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

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

...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.

I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.