“Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own forgiveness.”

“Growth is not concerned with itself.”

“They never die who have the future in them.”

“Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.”

“These are the stories that never never die that are carried like seed into a new country are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.”

“Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”