Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.

People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.

You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.

Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

What's wrong with being number 2?

We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.