“Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.”

“You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?”

“Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking;
Dream of battled fields no more,
Days of danger, nights of waking.”

“If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.”

“Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.”

“The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.”

“Where there is oppression, it will always be challenged by those of us who will challenge it with greater intensity, you know? So that's why I don't believe that there can ever be peace without justice, you know? The two go together. And there cannot be peace in the world with full-spectrum dominance or, you know, nuclear warfare or any of those things. They won't help, because always there will be people who demand dignity, who demand justice, who demand their rights.”

“Pessimism never won any battle.”

“And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.”

“Give it to me straight from the heart.
Tell me we can make one more start.
You know I'll never go - as long as I know
It's comin' straight from the heart.”