“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in the world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

“Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn’t know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you’re picking up the pieces–down to the last glassy splinter.”

“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”

“We do not inherit the world from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

“The most romantic love story isn’t Romeo and Juliet who died together…But Grandma and Grandpa who grew old together.”

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has his own son who thinks that he’s wrong.”