“There are things a man can do to make himself more articulate, and having sex is not one of them.”

“Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll get further in life by questioning things than by living like something that ends up as dinner and a sweater.”

“Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.”

“Being loved can do marvelous things for a man.”

“Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.”

“This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them; this is a language they know. They know what to do with`disease'. They know how to attach a doctor's medical descriptions to hope.”

“Whiskey to himself "God,please let this kid be legal, just to make that whole wood thing less disgusting”