“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”

“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”

“Learning is rebellion....Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.”

“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”

“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”

“I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us: How are you, Jean Louise? Fine, thank you ma'am, how are you? Very well, thank you; what have you been doing with yourself? Nothin'. Don't you do anything? Nome. Certainly you have friends? Yessum. Well what do you all do? Nothin'.”

“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.”