“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”

“Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…”

“Let me remind you that the measure of anyone's freedom is what he can do without.”

“There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.”

“Well, all I hope," said Miss Cornelia calmly, "is that when I'm dead nobody will call me 'our departed sister.”

“We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.”

“Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”