"Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for."

“Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.”

“Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.”

“Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.”

“Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.”

“If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.”

Source : "Dick Clark, Entertainment Icon Nicknamed 'America's Oldest Teenager,' Dies at 82" by Julia Kathan, Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. April 18, 2012.

“Alice: I miss myself. John: I miss you too, Ali, so much.”

“Good health makes a lot of sense, but it does not make a lot of dollars.”

Source : Source: www.drpasswater.com

“He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.”