About sex especially men are born unbalanced; we might almost say men are born mad. They scarcely reach sanity till they reach sanctity. - G. K. Chesterton

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

It was the outstanding fact about St. Thomas [Aquinas] that he loved books and lived on books ... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.