“Everything you do means something about you.”

“Criticizing and objecting to everything means an attempt to destruction. If you do not like something, try to make something better than it. Being destructive causes ruins, while being constructive brings about prosperity.”

“Yes, it’s true that you can’t learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.”

“Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you. ”

“But if you're going to think about your past, rather than dwell on the reasons you shouldn't have done something, remember the reasons you did. I mean, everything we do in life has some element of right and wrong to it.”

“There was always something about our family, and I don't mean color--there was something about us that impeded you. You think like a prisoner. You do, Coleman Brutus. You're white as snow and you think like a slave.”