“Science can’t explain why two specific people are magnetically drawn to each other instead of repelled. Only love can.”

“The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance.”

“The first time I saw you, I formed a very poor opinion of you. I thought you had no common sense and no character, and wouldn't make it to the marriage. That would forever remain the biggest mistake of my life.”

“The greatest effects we have on the world are the ones we can never see.”

“On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”

“Discipline is key when you’re working on self-fulfillment. Therefore, you must stay on course. Success is an ‘inside job’ because it starts with working on yourself first before you can reap any benefits.”

“I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?”

“When we try to look out for our future, we end up locking the person we need the most out of our life and then running away from our problems.”