To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.