The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his own bow. It is the single universal trait which the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended upon it, for indeed it does.

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.

Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.