"My will to live completely overcame my desire to win"

“You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn.”

Source : Jonathan Tropper (2007). “How to Talk to a Widower”, p.113, Bantam

“I’m going to go," he said. "All right." He didn’t move. Then: "I don’t want to." "Do it anyway." He chuckled. "You’re a hard woman, Faith Devlin." "Hardy." "I didn’t know him. He isn’t real to me. Did you love him?" "Yes." But not the way I love you. Never like that.”

“And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.”

“This is what America's all about, nobody's being hurt they have a right to express themselves, I watched all the television I could on Miami-Dade and I didn't see anybody being shoved around.”

“The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of the Self. Then you will no longer have to seek God. God himself will come to you. This is the Divine Law.”

“Lastly, the ashes left behind, May daily show to move the mind, That to ashes and dust return we must: Then think, and drink tobacco.”

“Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?”

Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns

“If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.”