“Honor is something we all profess,
But most of us cheat—some more, some less—
An' the real test isn't the way we do
When there isn't a pinch in either shoe;
It's whether we're true to our best or not
When the right thing's certain to hurt a lot.”

“Cheating is only cheating when you get caught, and bragging isn't bragging when you can do it.”

“The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them. It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.”

“Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.”

“That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.”

“We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.”

“We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?”

“It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.”

“We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.”

“Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.”