Joyce Carol Oates, Mudwoman Quotes
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.
And remember: you must not overwork your body, or your soul. You must not enslave yourself, as you would not enslave any other person. You must be the custodian of your self.