"My dad says that Childhood is the happiest time of my life. But I think he's wrong. I think my Mum's right. She says that childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome. She says beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but It's the middle that counts the most. You need to remember that when you find yourself at a new beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up. And It will."

(Hope Floats, directed by Forest Whitaker, 1998)