“How do you not know where the heart is? Especially considering how many of them you've broken?”

“Life is a strain many times; if you do not know how to play it well, you've lost before you started.”

“Consider all that you've gone through, all that you've survived. And that the story of your life is done, your assignment complete. How many good things have you seen? How much pain and pleasure have you resisted? How many honors have you declined? How many unkind people have you been kind to?”

“But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?”

“How many of you have broken no laws this month?”

“Slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.”

“How do you know what's truly good if you've never experienced what's truly bad?”

“I know many fine feathered friends
But their friendliness depends on how you do
They know many sure fired ways,
To find out the one who pays
And how you do”

“You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.”

“It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?... Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.”