Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.

As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.

You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.