“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

“…life is lonely, life is empty. Love isn't everything. A dear true friend is more than love--the serge outlasts the silk.”

“After spending an adult life of unfulfilled dreams and promises, a man has to prove something to himself.”

“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”

“He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.”

“You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.”

“I think my reputation is something that I'll probably try to spend the rest of my life living it down and it probably won't work.”

“What is Friendship? Something deep
That the heart can spend and keep:
Wealth that greatens while we give,
Praise that heartens us to live.”

“Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.”

“I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.”