“The west is dead. You may lose a sweetheart but you never forget her.”

“Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”

“But if you kept thinking about a fight you’d lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.”

“What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem.”

“Guard, protect and cherish your land, for there is no afterlife for a place that started out as Heaven.”

“Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.”

“May you have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”