“When it comes to family, everything gets personal.”

“The mind can be hunted, but hunting needs the mind.”

“Sometimes our fate our destiny turns out to be something we had never thought of.”

“Look at yourself, youre old, too, but still doing your work. This is what we are, Philips. This is what we are.”

“Success by ones efforts is the achievement gained through ability, not through deception.”

“If an angry bull is running toward you, and your pants become wet despite holding the red cloth, make sure the other side of the cloth is white.”

“Seek a slower, simpler life.”

“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect sel...”

“Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear...”

“And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'...”

“An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.”

“Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap.”