"What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?... There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity... You can smell it. It smells like death."

"But there's one thing you can't buy in a Europe firesale or in any other market on earth. And that's your life. You can't buy back your life when it's finished... The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. And if he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason why he buys everything he can is because his crazy hope is one of the things he buys will be life everlasting — which it never can be."

"Mendacity. What do you know about mendacity? I could write a book on it...Mendacity. Look at all the lies that I got to put up with. Pretenses. Hypocrisy. Pretendin' like I care for Big Mama, I haven't been able to stand that woman in forty years. Church! It bores me. But I go. And all those swindlin' lodges and social clubs and money-grabbin' auxiliaries. It's-it's got me on the number one sucker list. Boy, I've lived with mendacity. Now why can't you live with it? You've got to live with it. There's nothin' to live with but mendacity. Is there?"

"Truth! Truth! Everybody keeps hollerin' about the truth. Well, the truth is as dirty as lies."

"Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded."

"[to Trevor], so I'm just gonna tell you the truth. [A beat.] I have a problem. [A beat.] I have a really bad problem. I gotta stop. [A beat.]"

"When someone does you a big favor, don't pay it back...Pay It Forward"

"But I...I guess it's hard a hard for some people who are so used to things the way they are, even if they're bad, to change, 'cause I guess they kinda give up. And when they do, everybody kinda loses."

"David Ramsey - Sidney Parker"

"Angie Dickinson - Grace"

"Jon Bon Jovi - Ricky McKinney"

"Jim Caviezel - Jerry"

"Jay Mohr - Chris Chandler"

"Haley Joel Osment - Trevor McKinney"

"Helen Hunt - Arlene McKinney"

"Kevin Spacey - Eugene Simonet"

"Three imperfect people. One perfect idea."

"Is it possible for one idea to change the world?"

"Some favors you are not allowed to pay back."

"It all starts with you."

"Sometimes the simplest idea can make the biggest difference."

"Have you heard?"