“That kind of attention changes people, and it don’t make them better.”

“Good people don’t make fewer mistakes, they’re just better at apologizing.”

“People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it?”

“When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change … But only after trying their hardest to make you stop.”

“Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.”

“Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.”

“They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it.”

“Why are they [people] more likely to listen to people who tell them they can't make changes than they are to people who tell them they can?”

“It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.”

“My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.”