“During the prayers of the day, there was one less amen.”

“Only Jesus can complete.”

“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.”

“Fear manifested itself as a physical presence that seemed to dominate the public sphere. Time almost stopped. Even without confirmation I could sense that something had gone terribly wrong.”

“I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The room full of strangers hurt me profusely. Even as I saw thousands of young peop...”

“Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me!”

“Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep and assume we will always rise up the next day, that meals and rest will always replenish us....”

“Try. The tiniest dream that you try to make happen, is worth more than the biggest dream you never attempt.”

“Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its frag...”

“It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.”

“So I make no effort to hide my pain. I dont ever put it all on display like thisbut for today and all the rest of the days of the trial, I must. My every flinch, every flicker of pain, will bemagni...”

“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”

“The Hammer was a hard man, a smart man too, and he took pride in always having a plan b. For those troubling occasions when plan b didnt work, he would strive to also have a plan c in place. In sho...”

“Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter.”

“Leaders let go of what they can't control. It's a matter of knowing the power of the muscles and bones in your neck so you can go for what it can carry”