“It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.”

“The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.”

“When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.”

“Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid each cycle of the wave is valid each cycle of a relationship is valid. ”

“The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.”

“Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.”

“Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.”

“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”

“Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.”

“It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.”