But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Winning, to me, is relief; losing is like dying. It's gut-wrenching.

I grew up going to funerals and visiting people in nursing homes. I'm not as afraid of dealing with the dying as maybe some other people may be.

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

I don't fear death or ageing, but I fear them in other people that I am close to.