"He was a wonderful man. And when..." - Quote by Nicholas Sparks

“Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment.”

“Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.”

“Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other .”

“Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.”

“Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.”

“The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.”

“It just depends on what you decide to have in your heart. That's what I've learned. That's where I am at this stage in my life is if we can fill ourselves with love and appreciation for, and be in a state of gratitude... Every event of your life you have an opportunity to be in a state of gratitude for it.”

“Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'”

“A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal.”