What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life even, that’s like death. That’s eternal damnation.

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

But it turns out that even if I don’t talk a lot, when it’s something that matters I still have a lot to say.

Oh. Listen, this is really hard for me . . . " "What is?" "You know. Being liked." I started to cry. I couldn't help it.

And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.

I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.