Marry me, he says. I got all my own teeth, I wash twice a year an I'll cut you in fer half the business here.

Don't give in to fear. Be strong, like i know you are. An never give up, d'you unnerstand, never. No matter what happens.I stare at him.I won't, I says. I ain't no quitter, Pa.That's my girl.

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

Lugh goes first always first an I follow on behind. An that's fine. That's right. That's how it's meant to be.

I laugh. Yer crazy, I says.I was fine till I met you, he says.

You look at me with them eyes of yers, an I look at yer lips... an all I can think about is what it'ud be like to kiss you.

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.

Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.

I will speak daggers to her, but use none.