You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth. “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

The length of your days does not belong to you.

Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

I hate to be like everyone else, but I'm rooting for San Antonio because I like teams that were built the old-fashioned way.

There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell