Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

The fight isn't over until you win.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.