“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.”

“He still went out nearly every night. I thought, is this what he's going to do when we have the baby? Have I made another terrible mistake with a man? You don't really know a man until you have a child with him. Then you see so much. Is he kind? Is he tolerant? Is he loving? Or is he immature and egotistical and selfish? When you have a child, it can go two ways with your husband: You love him even more, or you lose all respect for him. And if you lose respect, there's no way to get it back...”

“Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains—except kill it.”

“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.”

“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”