“Donating money, if you have it to give, is an easily accomplished feat. What is harder is living out the tenet of putting others before you by actually taking their needs into account before your own.”

“Blood was shed that you three might breathe the good air of life, and if that means you have to miss out on a Zibzy game, then so be it. Part of being a man is putting others' needs before your own.”

“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others”

“You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.”

“What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.”

“If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you. They sorted it out so you could have a few years together before you began your donations.”