
Seligman: Love is blind.
Joe: No, no, no. It's worse. Love distort things. Or even worse, love is something you never asked for. The erotic was something that I ask for or even demanded of men. But this idiotic love... I felt humiliated by it. And all the dishonesty that follows.
Joe: The erotic is about saying yes. Love appeals to lowest instincts, wrapped up in lies. How do you say yes when you mean no? And vice-versa. I'm ashamed of what I became. But it was beyond my control.

Steve Wozniak: We can't afford to pay three people right now.
Steve Jobs: We can't afford to pay ourselves unless we deliver. And don't worry about Chris, he's just a kid. So he just wants to help.
Steve Wozniak: You're just a kid.

Langston: What kind of parents are you?
Reverend Cornell Cobbs: The broken hearted kind.

Chaney: I swear, I don't know nothin'! I swear before God and eight motherfuckin' white people.

Agnes 'Apple' Bailey: It's crazy how you can go and live with strangers and feel like a family.

Tatiana: Nooo! Don't go. I'm scared.
Oscar Grant: Scared of what?
Tatiana: I hear guns outside.
Oscar Grant: You know what, baby? Those are just firecrackers. You'll be safe inside, with your cousin.
Tatiana: But what about you Daddy?
Oscar Grant: Me? Baby, I'll be fine.

Charles Dickens: A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is a profound secret and mystery to every other.
Nelly: Until that secret is given to another to look after. And then perhaps two human creatures may know each other.

Nelson Mandela: I have walked a long walk to freedom. It has been a lonely road, and it is not over yet. I know that my country, was not made to be a land of hatred. No one is born hating another person because the color of his skin. People learn to hate. They can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart.

Crystal: When I was pregnant with you, it was strange. You were different. They wanted me to terminate, but I wouldn't. And you're right. I don't understand you. And I never will.

Woody Grant: I haven't been drinking.
Kate Grant: That's what you said on our first date.

Susanna: When I was younger, my dad used to bring me down here to do this all the time. He'd fill my head with all these useless facts about ghost crabs. Like, did you know they're omnivorous? Basically, they eat both animals and vegetables. My mom jokes, "Leave it up to your dad to be interested in a creature that goes both ways."

John Matthews: I admire you so much. The stand you're taking. You didn't take the easy way out. Not setting up one of your friends. I couldn't do what you did. So it looks like you're the one teaching me what real character and integrity is all about. I love you, son.