“But odds are only created if a probability exists that there is an alternative.”
" What can it hurt to buy the ticket and entertain that false hope?” "...you are the eternal optimist, but I get your point.” “Maybe I am. I’d rather be the guy actually holding that winning lottery ticket, but . . . even I’m not that eternal of an optimist.”

“‘When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to the evildoers.’ Proverbs 21:15.” "

"And I’ll tell you it’s a lot more fun moving forward with people you love and who love you.”

"The consequences are because of the actions a person chose to take, whatever that person’s reason or justification. The consequences lie with them."

"When people can no longer trust you, when they no longer see you as honorable, what are you left with? Not a lot. Sometimes, in those circumstances, it’s harder to live with yourself than it is to live with what you did.”

"Sometimes, people say, it takes a tragedy to make us realize what we have, to make us realize how blessed we really are and what we could lose. Sometimes we have to know loss to appreciate what we find. "

"What I’ve learned is that life isn’t about memories. It isn’t about the past. It’s about living in the present and looking to the future, and what that future holds for each of us”