Quotes
Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The wages of courage is death, lad, but it’s the wages of everything else, too.
p. 140
When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.
Wisdom precludes boldness.
p. 677
One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?
p. 191
The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.
p. 139
I was terrified of that ghost just like they were, but I never let anyone know it. That way, I knew they might call me a lot of awful names ... but one of them wasn't coward.
Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we believe we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.
