Espero que con el tiempo sea como él sin tener que pasar por todo lo que él ha pasado.

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man.

I want to be more like James Bond, and less like Ian Fleming.

You're not yet Socrates, but you can still live as if you want to be him.

If he grows up to be half the man you are, he’ll be phenomenally successful, and if I can be half the father you’ve been to me, I’ll have surpassed my own standards.

Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let everybody like me, why, I’ll give you anything in the world, and if I haven’t got it, why, I’ll go for to get it. I don’t want to be mean. I don’t want to be lonely. For Jesus’ sake, Amen.

Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity – another man’s, I mean.

Maybe he’ll be different from who he was and always is.

Unless one is at heart a rascal, I think he becomes a little better in many ways by assuming leadership.

I prefer the simplicity of his mind to the false enlightenment of yours

You’re a good boy. I wish you didn’t have to be quite so good

"He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine- I am sure he is- I feel akin to him- I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him."