Pioneers! O Pioneers!

There are no acts of heroism that don’t involve standing up for yourself.

- Iron Man, Chris Crutcher

The nature of mercy allows for all things.  It excuses nothing, but it allows for all things.

- Iron Man, Chris Crutcher

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered to us are up in parentheses.

- The Cider House Rules, John Irving

All of his reverence and all his fondness and all the learnings of his life were for the ardenthearted and they would always be so and never otherwise.

- All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy