I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

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.

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.

Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge