"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."

"Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are."

"Don’t be afraid,” she said. “The dead cannot hurt you. They give you no pain, except that of seeing your own death in their faces. And one can face that, I find.”Yes, he thought, the good face pain. But the great—they embrace it."

". . . principles come and go, but . . . human souls are immortal, and you should therefore throw in your lot with the greater part."

"An honor is not diminished for being shared."