The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.

There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing.

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.

You can’t lead without love, and more importantly, you can’t leave a legacy without love.

Analyse it

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.

Women never cease to impress and inspire me.

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little