“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”

“Was that a tragedy? Two lives, driven by one great passion, namely, to be spent in unheralded service to the perishing poor for the glory of Jesus Christ—even two decades after most of their American counterparts had retired to throw away their lives on trifles. No, that is not a tragedy. That is a glory. These lives were not wasted. And these lives were not lost. “Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it” (Mark 8:35).”

“Love can be a very frightening thing.’ ‘That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.”

“Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”