What if I lose you?" "You can't lose your mother, Charley.

If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

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.

Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.