A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.

God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison.

Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.