Everything she did and love, everything she was, required language.

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

Take what you've learned and love someone again. Find someone to love and love without condition. This is why we're all here.

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.

I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me.

At some point, there would simply be no point.

Alice: I miss myself. John: I miss you too, Ali, so much.

But I am not what I say or what I do or what I remember. I am fundamentally more than that.

In the ladies' room, Alice studied her image in the mirror. The reflected older woman's face didn't quite match the picture that she had of herself in her mind's eye." p 35

Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

Time given out through jobs can be channeled into something productive

If we learn to love someone for their imperfections that reflect our own, we eventually appreciate the thought that even the most beautiful things are damaged

Sacred blessings

Nobody out-rednecks the great state of America.

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.