I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go; but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it.

It is in defeat that we become Christian.

He was probably a coward," she said. "He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them." "I don't know. It's hard to see inside the head of the brave." "Yes. That's how they keep that way.

Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.

He wants to in the whirl of his own weakness. But the river is coming. By being forced to change, he'll be powerful in change.

The one who is doing the work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one poverty is hard on. Heminway talking about his wife Hadley

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.

When you have an interior life, it certainly doesn't matter what side of the prison fence you're on.... I've already died a thousand times in a thousand concentration camps. I know everything. There is no new information to trouble me. One way or another, I already know everything. And yet, I find this life beautiful and rich in meaning. At every moment.

Failure exists only for the person who quits. I do not quit.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.