there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz

He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

She had a bottomless well of love for me.

You're not going to fix things by helping 65-year-olds or 75-year-olds for any long run.