“People do not lose respect for a man when he's down. They lose it when he refuses to get up.”

“People do not lose respect for a man when he's down. They lose it when he refuses to get up.”

“How do we come to choose what it is that we spend our days doing? Would we choose it again if we could? Did we choose it today, or has it simply carried us along somehow?”

“The man who can fight to heaven's own height is the man who can fight when he's losing.”

“When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back”

“A four year old girl was overheard whispering in her newborn baby brother's ear: "Baby," she whispers, "tell me what God sounds like. I'm starting to forget." -- Between the Dreaming and the Coming True”

“Sometimes I wish that I could sing or dance or paint or compose symphonies or build cathedrals to express somehow what all of this means to me. I wish I were a priest or a robin or a child or a sunset.”