“Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.”

“One who possesses significant low self-esteem, is more likely to betray you.”

“Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”

“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.”

“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal — that you can gather votes like box tops — is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”

“There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.”

“Whenever they say it can’t be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.”

“Why wouldn't I dance?' Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch?”

“As for broken hearts, no self-respecting young woman shows such an ornament at any well regulated breakfast-table; they are kept in dark drawers and closets like other broken furniture.”

“I hear sometimes of the necessity for creating an "international mind." I am afraid that my heart is too stubbornly local for me to follow that high thought… I am an impenitent patriot; like Gilbert's heroic figure, "I remain an Englishman." I do not want daily to become more and more like my neighbour, nor would it gratify my self-esteem if he became daily more like me.”