That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands the use of a slide rule but prefers doing calculations in her head. She does not hesitate to risk life and limb- mine as well as her own. No doubt she has other qualities as yet undiscovered. I hope not.

A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.

Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.