"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

"Religion is a kind of life or experience."

"Studies of American boys who were captured in Korea showed that we had raised a soft, pampered generation. Many were easily discouraged and easily brain-washed."

"My illness is alive, the threats to my life are real; yet it is only my death I feel, only the lessening made by my own loss. I am gone, Kohler, right now; and who is so dead as one so dead to a momen…"

"I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear."