“A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.”

“Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs — not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.”

“Any weakness a person may have, is just a strength waiting to happen.”

“It has occured to Charlotte that men are full of petulant nonsense,and that their supposed strength is rather less than a girl's.”

“Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.”

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”