“I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.”
“But when I look at this farm I keep thinking it's not whether I have the guts to go but if I have the guts to stay.”
“I think trust is an important part of any relationship. but I also think it's something that can be rebuilt if you're willing to work at it.”
“I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it's like some kind of brain surgery...”
“I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.”
“I think it's God that makes people care for people, Jefferson. I think it's God makes children play and people sing. I believe it's God that brings loved ones together. I believe it's God that makes trees bud and food grow out of the earth.”