But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.