Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream" "I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up" "Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have-" "Oh, that's fine, I'm sure, when you have advantages." "You'd find them everywhere, if you ever bothered to look!

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.