I am; I was. I want to be.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingness to do what needed to be done - cook an omelette, change lightbulbs, make with hugging - sometimes almost made being a woman fun.

Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.