“The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.”

“Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.”

“You will always have some excuse not to live your life.”

“Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.”

“You picked me up from school
You attended all my sporting functions
You bought me a car
Gave me use of a credit card
But how can I feel pain,
How can I feel pain,
How can I feel pain
When you're being so supportive?”

“I swear it on Solin’s life. (Arik)
Uh, excuse me? (Solin)
I would, but there’s truly no excuse for you. (Arik)”

“Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.”

“Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.”

“I know how you think you feel about me, you don't though. You just like me because I'm safe. There's no risk. And then you never have to try to have a real relationship because you can use me as an excuse.”

“It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken”