“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if...” — Thornton Wilder Quote

“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”

“Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.”

“Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know — that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.”

“When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.”

“Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.”

“Courage is grace under pressure.”