“What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.”

“THOMAS GuiltyOf mankind. I have perpetrated human nature. My father and mother were accessories before the fact, But therell be no accessories after the fact, By my virility there wont! ...”

“There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.”

“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.”

“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.”

“The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.”

“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”

“Find your noble purpose and defeat any residue of fear.”

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”