When you're in bed, you're dead

There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.