Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.