“We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”

“When all else is lost, the future still remains.”

“Carry the fire.”

“No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”

“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.

We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.