He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary.

Righteousness doesn't mean being right. It means showing love, compassion and understanding no matter what you think is right.

A righteous man does not conceive of himself as righteous; he is "only doing what anyone else would do," except, of course, that no one else does it.

Faith works righteousness

You got a vicious animal inside you. It wants to snap, it wants to attack, but it's harmless because some woman fitted a muzzle on it. Now, how do you imagine it feels about that muzzle? How do you think it will regard the woman the moment that muzzle is off, and she is within biting distance?

They wouldn’t have understood if they found him crying, when he woke and remembered all at once that he had once had a wife and child, so they never found him this way.