“You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? So...”

“Dominion won by fear and secured by fear was still sweeter than any that could be got another way.”

“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”

“See? See what you can do? Never mind you cant tell one letter from another, never mind you born a slave, never mind you lose your name, never mind your daddy dead, never mind nothing. Here, this he...”

“Her passions were narrow but deep.”

“It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.”

“Life only wants us to be happy. We impose these burdens on ourselves.”

“...people with nothing to declare carry the most.”

“Burdens of life become lighter when your heart is filled with love and we learn to forgive and forget with profound kindness.”

“Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able.”

“Sometimes the only thing we can do for people is pray.”

“You simply cannot know the depth of your magnificence without the contrast of life.”

“We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, h...”

“People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. B...”

“Q: You'er presented with a smooth-faced, eight-foot-high wooden wall. Your objective? Get over it. To, like, save comrades or something. How to accomplish this?A: Take a running start, brace one fo...”