“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”

“True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.”

“Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.”

“And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a man is always his father's child no matter how old he is or how long they have been apart.”

“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.”

“How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.”

“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.”

“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.”

“If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful.”

“The important thing is: how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter—as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being.”