“We turn ourselves into beasts so that we may cope with being human.”

“While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.”

“God himself, sir, doesn't propose to judge man until the end of his days”

“This is the gift of humanity: that it is claimed by the self. None of us...are human unless and until we claim it for ourselves. But nothing can stop that claiming - not the eight million gods nor the spirits nor ghosts. Nothing but ourselves, anyway.And our lives become the poems we were born to tell.”

“He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”

“He had to admit that the biggest inhibitor to change lies within yourself, and that nothing gets better until you change.”

“He knew some fear should be respected, as it can keep you out of realdanger. But he realized most of his fears were irrational and had kept himfrom changing when he needed to.”