“I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my advantage, because like if you can believe in something great, I feel like you can achieve something great.”

“Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I believe I can achieve something in my life.”

“I believe that I must do everything I can do to lessen misery. That's all I can do, and that is something enormous. It is a great power.”

“That's what I want, a mental evidence I can feel. I don't want physical evidence, proof you have to go out and drag in. I want evidence that you can carry in your mind and always touch and smell and feel. But there's no way to do that. In order to believe in a thing you've got to carry it with you. You can't carry the Earth, or a man, in your pocket. I want a way to do that, carry things with me always, so I can believe in them. How clumsy to have to go to all the trouble of going out and bringing in something terribly physical to prove something. I hate physical things because they can be left behind and become impossible to believe in them.”

“Too many books. . . too many fairy tales led him to believe that there was something romantic in being a soldier.”

“I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me”