You don't have to, Henry. In here, I think my dream is big enough for the both of us.

Hope can get you through anything.

The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.

He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.

The last time someone had laid out a suit and a pair of dress shoes with a ticket purchased for a faraway place, Henry had refused to go.This time, Henry refused to stay.

Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- in real life. It was lonely. Almost as lonely as Lake View Cemetery, where he'd buried Ethel.

I am what you made me, Father.

Loyalty. We're still loyal to the United States of America. Why? Because we too are Americans. We don't agree, but we will show our loyalty by our obedience.

Because the bag is full of colours - starbursts and wheels and whorls of dazzling brightness that are as fine and complex in their structures as the branch is, only much more symmetrical. Flowers.

The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its ess

I didn't move to Nashville with any inkling or dreams of getting a record deal. I didn't have those stars in my eyes. I just wanted to take a break, relax, and figure out songwriting.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

The talent should speak for itself.

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.

Every interview I'm representing you making you proud. Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.