“a dream can be the highest point of a life”

“When your concentration reaches it's highest point of being, then, and only then can there be a transformation.”

“the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!”

“Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.”

“My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is--all--over....”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ”