“… it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.”

“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”

“Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words.”

“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”

“The most important thing I found out from [my father] is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.”

“Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.”

“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”

“For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.”

“Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion within the human heart that can never be reversed.”