Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.

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