For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

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.

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.