“Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.”

“If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.”

“Talent does what it can genius does what it must. ”

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”

“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”

“If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.”

“At dawn, they call in a napalm airplane, but it drop the shit damn near right on top of us. Our own fellers be all signed and burnt up - come running out into the open, eyes big as biscuits, everyb...”

“We must be our own before we can be another's.”

“A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.”

“The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating”

“This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and thats the truth.”

“Some people walk into our lives to touch our hearts and others to touch our soul!”