I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.

If you'd bothered to ask me, Clark, if you'd bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn't bother to ask me. You decided what you thought you'd like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.

Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.

I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen

Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.

When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.