The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails... adds a deeper meaning to his life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

A non-moral use of a term does not necessarily tell us what the term means.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that was not life.