So you just went in and told him to give you two Cokes and he gave them to you?" "No, I didn't just go in and tell him to give me two Cokes. I asked for a Coke for me and a Coke for the skinny thug sitting on the library steps.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

When a girl holds a rose up to you, you run better, let me tell you.

Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.

Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really know-that the emptinessis as much as inside you as outside you.For it falls out,that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it;but being lacked and lost,why,then we rack the value,then we find the virtue that possesion would not show us while it was ours.That's when I knew for the first time that I really did love my sister.