“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

“As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”

“The future though imminent is obscure.”

“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparentl...”

“Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.”

“Patience is sorrow's salve.”

“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”

“I know that the whole pointthe only pointis tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go.”

“No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.”

“The price of stability is unpreparedness.”

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

“The price of love is high- but pain- we sell it cheap.”

“The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offsh...”

“It was the inverse of an island in the sea.”

“The sweet-smelling aroma of the island spices still hung in the air. It filled his nostrils and titillated his appetite all over again. His appetite drove him mad for something much more than food.”