If I understand it correctly, what means the most here is whats best f — Kramer vs. Kramer

"Billy has a home with me. Ive made it the best I could. Its not perfect. Im not a perfect parent. Sometimes I dont have enough patience because I forget that hes a little kid. But Im there. We get up in the morning and then we eat breakfast, and he talks to me and then we go to school. And at night, we have dinner together and we talk then and I read to him. And, and we built a life together and we love each other. If you destroy that, it may be irreparable. Joanna, dont do that, please. Dont do it twice to him."

"For the last six months Ive been spitting blood to get this agency one of the biggest account its ever had. And at five oclock this afternoon, we got the account. At eight oclock, I am walking home with the vice president and tells me Ill be the next creative director of this department. I come through this door to share with my wife one of the five best days of my life, and she looks at me and tells me she doesnt want to live with me anymore! Cant you understand what shes done to me?"

"[having lunch with his boss] So the other morning, Im at the refrigerator... you know, getting Billy ready for school. So Im just in my underwear and he notices Ive lost weight. And he comes in and pats me. He comes up to here... [touches his stomach]... and he says "Daddy, youve really lost a lot of weight", he looks up at me and he says "And its all gone to your nose." [laughs] He was so cute. You know?"

"[in court] Theres a lot of things I didnt understand, a lot of things Id do different if I could. Just like I think theres a lot of things you wish you could change, but we cant. Some things once theyre done cant be undone. My wife, my ex-wife, says that she loves Billy, and I believe she does, but I dont think thats the issue here."

"Jane Alexander – Margaret Phelps"

"JoBeth Williams – Phyllis Bernard (as Jobeth Williams)"

"At one point a heated discussion arose over the possible interpretation of Lolita as a grandiose metaphor of the classic Europeans hopeless love for young, seductive, barbaric America. In his afterword to the novel Nabokov himself mentions this as the naive theory of one of the publishers who turned the book down. And although there cant be the slightest doubt that Nabokov did not mean to limit Lolita to that interpretation, there is no reason to exclude it as one of the novels many dimensions. The point, I felt, became obvious when one drew the line between Lolita as a delightfully frivolous story on the verge of pornography and Lolita as a literary masterpiece, the only convincing love story of our century."

"Lovely food, for rabbits, that is."

"One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved."

"[explaining to Ernie how April apologized to him] She just showed up at the factory, took off her coat, and begged me to take her. We made love in a way that Ive only ever seen in nature films."

"Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised."

"He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That was it! Uneasiness. Not a definite mistrust — just uneasiness — nothing more. You have no idea how effective such a... a... faculty can be. He had no genius for organizing, for initiative, or for order even. That was evident in such things as the deplorable state of the station. He had no learning, and no intelligence. His position had come to him — why? Perhaps because he was never ill . . . He had served three terms of three years out there . . . Because triumphant health in the general rout of constitutions is a kind of power in itself."