Sam picks the stone up and clenches his entire body in deep concentration. Nothing happens. " Oh come on," he says to the stone. " I promise to use it for the power of good. No girls' locker rooms, I swear.

You can let your anger destroy you, or you can use it for something.

Sometimes you can hide just as effectively by sticking out.

I'll come back to you," I say, "If it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you.

Kill that Garde as hard as you can!

We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.

And that’s about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor. To die knowing we did everything we could.