“Had I owned the words I would've told him what my heart intuited - that joy and sorrow often travel the same road and sometimes, whether by grace or misfortune, they meet and become each other's companion.”

“In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.”

“I fear God and respect God and love God.”

“The doctor if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces.”

“Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking.”

“Had I owned the words I would've told him what my heart intuited - that joy and sorrow often travel the same road and sometimes, whether by grace or misfortune, they meet and become each other's companion.”

“But if, in despotic statecraft, the supreme and essential mystery be to hoodwink the subjects, and to mask the fear, which keeps them down, with the specious garb of religion, so that men may fight as bravely for slavery as for safety, and count it not shame but highest honor to risk their blood and their lives for the vainglory of a tyrant; yet in a free state no more mischievous expedient could be planned or attempted.”

“A story, I had learned, through my own constant knitting and reknitting of remembered words, can lead us back to ourselves, to our lost innocence, and in the shadow it casts over our present world, we begin to understand what we only intuited in our naivete-that while all else may vanish, love is our one eternity.”

“I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it”

“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.”

“He supposes in this way he's learned to pray not as one might to the gods but as one does by simply pausing every now and then to think of others.”