All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.

Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.