When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.

Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." Worse than an unanswered prayer? "Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.