When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.

Whatever news we get about the scans, I’m not going to die when we hear it. I won’t die the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that. So today, right now, well this is a wonderful day. And I want you to know how much I’m enjoying it.” I thought about that, and about Jai’s smile. I knew then. That’s the way the rest of my life would need to be lived.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

until you got ice cream spilled on you, you’re not doing field work

All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.