Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

Watch carefully the magic that occurswhen you give a person enough comfort to just be themselves.

Family’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in.

Your silence is loudest to those who love you most.

I have to chose my words carefully.

Nothing is forever except change.

My mother did what many men do. She left.

Every last word is contagious.

In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.

Get off, you look ugly (to a blood splattered player during a game)

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?