“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”

“How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”

“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”

“He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.”

“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”

“I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew...”

“Unless, of course, one chose to join the increasing numbers who had decided they were so deep in despair that there was nothing worse to fear in life. These were men who had finally, and so early, ...”

“Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me. Apparently Jimmy knew...”

“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”

“Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.”

“So the next day I asked Dan how is it that Bubba can get killed, and what kind of half assed nature law would allow that. He thought about it for a while, and said, 'Well, I'll tell you, Forrest, a...”

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“It is time to have real conversations. Even in high crime areas everybody in that area is not committing crimes. Everybody on the police force is not corrupt. Just like everybody in the hospital i...”

“Everybody wants to cut off the limb to to deal with the problem. You cant just keep cutting off limbs and destroying fruit. We have to become committed enough to examine the root. The root of the p...”

“Respect has left our society in so many ways we dont even respect the office of the Commander in Chief as we should. The strength of any building, organization or family must include respect. As a...”