“The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.”

“Strange things happened to them . . . some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that faith is refired forever.”

“Strange things are said to have happened in this world — some are said to be happening still — but half of them, if I'm any judge, are lies.”

“A mountain is a strange and awful thing. In old times, without knowing so much of their strangeness and awfulness as we do, people were yet more afraid of mountains. But then somehow they had not come to see how beautiful they are as well as awful, and they hated them--and what people hate they must fear. Now that we have learned to look at them with admiration, perhaps we do not feel quite awe enough of them. To me they are beautiful terrors.”

“Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And then there are those who wonder, 'What the hell just happened?”

“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”