“It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.”

“When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren’t many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity—a waste of precious time and effort.”

“If you're going to do something stupid—and we all do—it might as well be a brave and foolish thing.”

“I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave.”

“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.”

“A brave endeavor
To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,
Is better than life with love forever
And love is the sweetest thing on earth.”

“It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.”

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”

“Love makes us do stupid things.”