Hope can get you through anything.

The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They define you by what you do, by what your actions say about you. And coming here, despite your parents, says a lot to them- and me. And they're Americans first. They don't see you as the enemy. They see you as a person.

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me

There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.

After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.