It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically.

His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.