“He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.”
“Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?”
“A man who doesn't say what he means or do what he says, craves attention and misuses it when he gets it, doesn't share what he knows and earns,deserves death.”
“Happiness does not have to be deserved, earned, worked for or paid for; it simply has to be accepted.”
“Thirty years - almost all of them really happy. That's a lifetime, it's incredible. Most people don't get that. But maybe this is just over, you know? Maybe it's over...”
“You deserve to be happy," he whispers. "No matter what you think or what you did. You deserve to be happy.”