“You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.”

“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”

“The greatest activity is the remembrance and recollection of the Lord and after that come, in order of preference, purity of life, charity and austerity.”

“O thrush, your song is passing sweet
But never a song that you have sung,
Is half so sweet as thrushes sang
When my dear Love and I were young.”

“That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.”

“Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing…”

“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”

“I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.”

“You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.”

“The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”