Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave - James Salter

One must have heroes, which is to say, one must create them. And they become real through our envy, our devotion. It is we who give them their majesty, their power, which we ourselves could never possess. And in turn, they give some back. They do not last forever. They fade. They vanish. They are surpassed, forgotten — one hears of them no more.

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.

The courage to live when the best days were past.