Love is a decision more than it is a feeling.

What is hate? Like when you don’t like someone?

When there are more people who hate than people who love, then there are wars, which make hate grow until it destroys everything.

You can’t learn to swim unless you’re willing to risk drowning. Keeping your distance from the water might keep you safe for a while, but it also keeps you far way from the things that are really worth it.

A family was much more than a group of people united by blood. More than anything, it was the thin thread that kept the present linked to the past. Memories and memory itself kept both worlds together.

True peace was a sleeping child’s face.

Jacob longed to grow up, to become an adult, yet he was still drawn to so much from childhood, and he did not want to give up his playing.

In one sense, childhood is an eternal present. The road traveled is just a few feet beyond the starting point, and the end goal seems so far away that it gives the false sense of eternity that the young always feel.

Happiness was compromised of small decisions that move you closer to your dreams. Before you could be happy, you had to imagine life as an exciting novel with a happy ending.