"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good."

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."

"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."