“Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.”

“The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows”

“It had been no struggle to turn his face to the south and leave it behind — but it had hurt his heart.”

“A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.”

“But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.”

“And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended.”

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”