“and he felt that, just as he had conquered this place, he could conquer the world.”

“If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world”

“And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.”

“Now all the mountains had been conquered and astronauts had walked in space. There were no more islands on earth—no matter how small—left to be discovered.”

“When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a story current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”

“The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small. Our glory and sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is, and how wide its horizons.”

“He recognized that he was feeling something he had never experienced before : the desire to live in one place forever. With the girl with the raven hair his days would never be the same again”