A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
Get off your butt and join the Marines!
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.