“The way to be happy is totake pleasure in what you do and how you do it, not inimagining that happiness is some place at the end of the road.”

“Once you learn the joyof reading a whole world ofdiscovery opens up and you'll never look back”

“We do not make mistakes. Surrender at once! Resistance is fertile!""Don't you mean futile?""...That's what I said! Surrender or die!”

“I felt the way I feel sometimes right before you go to sleep, when all you want to do is sleep, and then suddenly, when you're almost there, when your mind goes dizzy and it's almost like you don't have a body at all, your remember how long the night is, how you might not wake back up. And like a shock, you're sitting straight up, scared to do the thing you've done every day of your life.”

“The King did what all wise husbands do. He did as he was told.”

“There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.”

“Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.”