“After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.”

“Dream after dream ensues;
And still they dream that they shall still succeed;
And still are disappointed.”

“It is always a good plan for a speculative experimenter to have two experiments going, or at least one going and one being built.”

“Dawson, she knew, had saved Alan's life- but in the end, he'd saved Jared's as well. And for her that meant… everything. 'I gave you the best of me,' he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.”

“Our passion is our strength.
I dreamed that I pissed in my suitcase one time, I woke up in the morning and uh I had urine inside my suitcase.”

“Damned to continued disappointment are they who dream only of their own happiness over that of others.”

“It was the one dream he'd never permitted himself to consider.”

“Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.”

“I think that behind everything in life there is a wisdom: God has his own plans.”

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”