“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”