That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.

It's the thinking that gets you killed.

You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.

The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.