“Courtesy is fundamental: sometimes it keeps at bay even snarling people.”

“Baby, even the losers get lucky sometimes.
Even the losers keep a little bit of pride.
They get lucky sometimes.”

“So even if a fire develops, it can't really attack the particularly vulnerable locations like the pneumatic system or the avionics or the engine bay. We want to be in the situation that even if a fire develops, the rocket just keeps going.”

“Even people you hate deserve opinions. And sometimes they’re going to have better ideas than yours. Keep an open mind to everyone.”

“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.”

“Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.”

“If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.”

“Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.”

“Books don’t change people; paragraphs do; sometimes even sentences.”

“Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.”