“she cannot expect to excel if she does not practice a good deal.”
“She did not believe in random. God does not deal in random.”
“Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated...”
“She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.”
“…that would be too much like running away, and that, she would not do. She does not run—they cannot make her—she walks.”
“Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.”