“The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.”

“But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, its not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me.”

“Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.”

“You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.”

“I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.”

“People can be miracles.”

“And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.”

“I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is”

“What are the gifts given to we who live Below?""Long life, health, strength, and happiness.""What is the curse of those who live Above?""Short life, illness, weakness, and misery.""Is this fair?""I...”

“Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.”

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”