“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.”

“It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.”

“We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.”

“The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.”

“Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?”

“It is not the things that we have, but how we use them that is important.”

“Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn..”

“The most important question we have to deal with, is a combination of population control and the control of our environment — how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind.”

“We might even predict annually how many individuals will stain their hands with the blood of their fellow-men, how many will be forgers, how many will deal in poison, pretty nearly in the same way as we may foretell annual births and deaths.”

“Listen ladies, we were not born to be a man's play thing. We were not born to serve men... We are not less than or inferior to men. We are life. We give life. We nurture life. I don't understand how that's not a big deal but it should be a big deal. It's a great deal actually. We endure a hell of a lot of pain to keep the cycle of life going. Being treated less than essential, less than precious should not be tolerated. In fact, I don't even understand how it's allowed and normalized.”