“The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.”

“Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.”

“How is it that we carry the weight of the world on our shoulders, but we have to get it off our chest?”

“We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.”

“But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts”

“We have a weight to carryand a distance we must go.We have a weight to carry,a destination we can't know.We have a weight to carryand can put it down nowhere.We are the weight we carryfrom there to here to there.”