People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the teeth of the most terrifying odds achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity You come from a long line of great poets some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said "The very time I thought I was lost My dungeon shook and my chains fell off." You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you James and Godspeed.

After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.