“Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”

“I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”

“It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.”

“The climax is when you are taught the lesson that Punch never learns, and you are caught and charged with murder.”

“Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.”

“Because adoption is a lifelong journey, we have a future filled with the potential to learn invaluable lessons. But many of us haven't been taught that we have a choice in every situation in life.”