“Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.”

“A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother—and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment.—Anna Jarvis.”

“When you cease to dream, you cease to live.”

“If you can't do, you had best shut up. He started to slam the door, thought better of it. If you can't do, you'd best not slam doors.”

“You can't have capitalism without racism.”

“If you can't do, you'd best shut up about it.”

“I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.”