“Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.”

“Courage, my child, is not the absence of fear. It's the triumph over fear.”

“Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.”

“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.”

“For if there is an actual and present rule of God in the world, then it must be found, not in the conquest of visible enemies, but in the triumph of love and life, however halting and partial, over sin and death. And this is the work of the Spirit. And it is the calling of the Church.”

“Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.”