The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

The helpless can't help the helpless.

Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.