“As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.”

“We must learn to embrace the new seasons in our lives. There is a season to gain, a season to lose; a season for peace, a season for war; a season to laugh, a season to mourn, and to betray.”

“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”

“I speak of the human heart, not a logic puzzle." -Diego de Gama”

“Everyone looked better at a distance. Everyone sounded sweetest when you did not have to hear them talk too long.”

“Everyone wants to save Man, but no one wants to know about men.”

“You can’t go around holding the worst thing you ever did in your hand, staring at it. You gotta cook supper, put gas in the car. You gotta plant more zinnias.”

“...[T]he three greatest works are those of Homer, Dante and Shakespeare. These are closely followed by the works of Virgil and Milton.”