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

"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."

"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."

"If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived."

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

"The death of a beloved is an amputation."