The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet

I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too." What?" I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.

We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.