“Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.”

“Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me.”

“Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave. ”

“Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else - ignorance, for example...Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map.”

“You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all.”

“Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?”

“You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own”