“That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?”

“Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.”

“You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.”

“Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."”

“This was your butterfly, you see—
His fine wings made him vain:
The caterpillars crawl, but he
Passed them in rich disdain.—
My pretty boy says, “Let him be
Only a worm again!”

“He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear;' it was no delusion! What is written is written, and he that readeth let him understand.”

“The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you--whether because you didn't get to have your say, or because the other person never got to hear you and really wanted to.”

“You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth”

“Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.”

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”