“Perhaps we can win, he thought. But there will be no happy ending”

“If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.”

“Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.”

“Even if we can never quantify [satisfaction or happiness]… as precisely as we currently quantify GNP,… perhaps it is better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong.”

“So it ends
As it begins.
Off we climb
And no one wins.”

“If happy I and wretched he,
Perhaps the king would change with me.”

“A person can perhaps succeed in hiding his sins from the world, he can perhaps be foolishly happy that he succeeds, or yet, a little more honest, admit that it is a deplorable weakness and cowardliness that he does not have the courage to become open-but a person cannot hide his sins from himself. P. 182”

“It was certainly a long day. But a win is a win, and that's good. That's what we set out to do. It wasn't easy, but it ended up good.”

“Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.”

“There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.”