“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”

“The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.”

“One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?”

“I am not ready to die, But I am learning to trust death As I have trusted life. I am moving Toward a new freedom”