promise me, Jacob, that

KEY POINTS—BUILDING TRUST • Trust is the foundation of teamwork. • On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people. • Building trust takes time, but the process can be greatly accelerated. • Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.

Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.

I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

Love is an act of faith in another pesron, not an act of surrender.

Most human beings still cannot trust love.

For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.

She still lives in a world in which people are faithful and vows of love are forever.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around. No one sacrifices the most important thing she possesses: love. No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

True love could withstand such a separation.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.