Quotes from Robert Dugoni

There comes a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.

we live for the quiet, intimate moments that mark not our calendars but our hearts:

Our skin, our hair, and our eyes are simply the shell that surrounds our soul, and our soul is who we are. What counts is on the inside.

Long. Not interesting. Coffee?" "No thanks. I'm trying to cut back." "I thought coffee was a prerequisite for being a cop." "That's donuts. What do lawyers eat?" "Each other.

But to my mother—I suspect to all mothers—their little boys will always be their little boys, no matter how old those boys become.

Sometimes our questions are better left unanswered.

Life is about heart. Yours is as big as any kid's I've ever coached. Don't you ever forget that.

Sleep was like sex. The less you had, the more you craved it

We realize it is in those quiet moments that each of us has the ability to make our lives extraordinary.

Dearest father in heaven, bless this child and bless this day of new beginnings. Smile upon this child and surround this child, Lord, with the soft mantle of your love. Teach this child to follow in your footsteps, and to live life in the ways of love, faith, hope, and charity.

Time is wicked. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, stealing our youth, our beauty, and our bodies.

The first recollection started as a trickle that, as soon as I attempted to block it, found another path to weep through, the way water will always bleed through concrete, no matter how many times you patch it.

Life is either a collision of random events, like billiard balls during a break careening off and into one another, or if you are so inclined to believe, our predetermined fate—what my mother took such great comfort in calling God's will.

some pain never fully resolved. You just suppressed it beneath a façade of normalcy.

All I know is, the more I rebuilt, the more I realized that just because things hadn't worked out as I'd planned didn't mean things couldn't work out at all.

When it comes to psychopaths, there is no medication. There is no treatment. There is no cure. There are only prisons.

Every minute of every day is a gift, and growing old a privilege, not a right.

Discrimination is difficult, because in its worst form, it is not overt. It is subtle.

I remained a child, in need of someone to care for me. That person had been my mother all my life. I feared losing her. I feared not having her near me, not having her around, a part of my life

Everything happens for a reason, Samuel. Never forget that. Have faith in God's will." Then she closed her eyes. They would be the last words she ever spoke to me.

Reality could be painful to acknowledge, but there came a point when we all realized we weren't going to walk on the moon, star in a Hollywood movie, or be president of the United States. We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment.

The past is always the highest peak, and the hardest to scale. But when you finally pull yourself to the top and peer over the edge, there's nothing before you but the rest of your life.

There comes a time in every man's life," he'd said in the halting, ghostly voice his stroke had left him, "when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.

It takes a lifetime to build a life. It only takes a second to ruin it.