“When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn’t ask questions.”

“What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.”

“Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God;s greatest gift to man.”

“The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.”

“Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades)Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on him?”

“Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man.”