“Do you give up?" Shezmu bellowed."No!" I yelled. "No, we don't give up. We will name you. Just . . . Gosh, you're quite well muscled, arn't you? Do you work out?”

“Things don't always work out the way we expect them to... you can't just give up.”

“You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it.”

“How can you give up the world? Just do what you ought to do, and it will give you up.”

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”

“As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us do when we try to judge ourselves. Now is the time to give reading a chance, for if you don't get the habit when you're young you may never get it. And if you don't get it, you may grow up to be just as dull as most adults are.”