“After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.”

“Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.”

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”

“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”

“Ive got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirstyeverything I dont like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty a...”

“You have been my friend... And that in itself is a tremendous thing.”

“But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.”

“The music has teased and tickled me in an empty space that the most vacuous.”

“My life is never empty because my heart is always full.”

“You can blow into a balloon and watch it inflate, and then release it and see it deflate. You can take that same balloon and blow into it again, and observe it inflating. That's what my heart is do...”

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

“The graveyards are full of indispensable men.”

“When the mind wants to hope it refuses to listen.”

“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...”

“It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, wou...”