Allan Dare Pearce

My pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python.

Are we praying?" "If you have to ask, you probably aren't.

Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didn't bother praying, knowing there was no sense to anything.

Kids are important. The most important thing.

These young people are going to change the world.

My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.

Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn't appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff?

To the extent a man can control chaos, he should put his testicles on the line and do so, but when a man can't, he should just step aside, or someone in the lineup behind him is gonna bite his ass.

He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.

Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That's one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.

Family is more important than anything.

I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.

When you reach voting age, we will take your opinion under consideration.

There is, you will concede, a limit to the niceties a man is obliged to fulfill when his wife is dead and not yet cold.

Surely you can see the failings of the system. Inequality, injustice, unfairness, and exploitation--

Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb?

Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand.

Your repressed feelings desperately try to climb to the surface but fail to do so, and in therapy we seek to reveal -- to uncloak, if you will -- these unconscious desires, the things that your mind tries to repress, those secrets of your soul.