As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.

She had a bottomless well of love for me.

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

I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we value- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society- determine those for you. ' -Morrie Schwartz

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.