Man’s immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal. - Mary Renault

You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.