“We never let go of that,' Cecily said. 'I mean, even for parents - that's never not your baby, you know?' "I think you're right." As he got sicker, it was more and more often how he thought of people--of Charlie, certainly, and of everyone else here or gone: not as the sum of all the disappointments, but as every beginning they'd ever represented, every promise.”
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“Do things for the right reasons and the money will follow.”
“Suddenly, after you die, those friends who never agreed about anything agree about your character.”
“I go out an honest man, but you stay in a rogue.”
“If 'character' had a body...'integrity' would be it's spinal cord and 'humility' it's heart.”
“My passport just identifies me; my behavior shows my real identity.”
“Measure a person’s worth by their character, not their possessions.”