“I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.”

“He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.”

“Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.”

“It happened like this, if it happened at all. I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs.”

“It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.”

“But it was the stupidity of passion, which would rather have nothing than a little.”

“Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt you, and then went on their way rejoicing.”