“You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are.”

“With time, many people show who they really are, and some people show who they really are by what they say... Now I know who you are. What a disappointment.”

“Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.”

“I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.”

“Your first kiss isn’t as important as your last. The math test really didn’t matter. The pie really did. The stuff you’re good at and the stuff you’re bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for the people you love and the people you don’t—and the people who love you and the people who don’t. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people. Life is really, really short.”

“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.”