Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

There is nothing perfect...only life.

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.

The heart / That laughs must ache.

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.