Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.

Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.

Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Beware—Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But don't chew, don't swallow. If you do, you risk abandoning the good work that inspired the compliment in the first place. If that happens, maybe it was the compliment and not the job well done that you were aiming for all along.

It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.