“The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar”

“It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.”

“I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.”

“It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous”

“There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it”

“It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble”

“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep t...”

“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”

“Men can be relentless," she agrees, "when they think a woman belongs to them.”

“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.”

“Master your mind and you'll master the world around you.”

“Give me meaning, give me soul. Give my rapture, wild, a heart that is raw. Give me a mind that thinks for itself and imagines freely.”

“Broken hearts mend but souls forever fight the battle.”