How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.
...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.
There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.
A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.