Mrs. O'Brien: [voice over] Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.
Mrs. O'Brien: [voice over] The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by.
[silence]
Mrs. O'Brien: [voice over] Do good to them. Wonder. Hope.
Prologue: [on screen, unspoken] "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" Job 38:4,7
Young Jack: [voice over] Where were You? You let a boy die. You let anything happen. Why should I be good ? When You aren't.
Mr. O'Brien: Toscanini once recorded a piece sixty five times. You know what he said when he finished? "It could be better." Think about it. Think about it. Twenty-seven patents your father had. It means ownership, ownership of ideas. You gotta sew 'em up. Get them by the nuts if you pardon my French.
Father Haynes: He is in God's hands, now.
Mrs. O'Brien: He was in God's hands the whole time. Wasn't he?
Young Jack: [voice over] I didn't know how to name You then. But I see it was You. Always You were calling me.
Young Jack: [voice over] What I want to do, I can't do. I do what I hate.
Mrs. O'Brien: [voice over] Lord, Why? Where were you? Did you know what happened? Do you care?
Mrs. O'Brien: Light of my life. I search for you.
Mrs. O'Brien: My hope. My child.
Mr. O'Brien: Be rich. You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny. Can't say I can't. You see I'm having trouble. I'm not done yet. Can't say I can't.
[last lines]
Mrs. O'Brien: [voice-over] I give him to you. I give you my son.
Mrs. O'Brien: [pointing to the sky] That's where God lives!
Mr. O'Brien: Your mother's naive. It takes fierce will to get ahead in this world. If you're good, people take advantage of you.
Young Jack: [voice over] Mother. Make me good. Brave.
Father Haynes: Do you trust in God? Job too, was close to the Lord. Are your friends and children, your security? There is no hiding place in all the world where trouble may not find you. No one knows when sorrow might visit his house, any more than Job did. At the very moment everything was taken away from Job. He knew it was the Lord who had taken it away.
Jack: [voice over] I see me as a child... I see my brother. True. Kind. He died when he was 19.
