“Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”
“Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.”
“Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.”
“You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of great strength.”“Strength,” she said with a little laugh. “I gave her strength, and look what she did with it.”
“A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only.The Twenty-first Voyage”
“To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.”