The statue was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

To fear to face an issue to believe that the worst is true.

--Atlas Shrugged

He felt nothing for them now, nothing but the merciless zero of indifference, not even the regret of a loss.

She stopped for the duration of a glance around her, as if to recapture the place, but there was no recognition of persons in her eyes, the glance merely swept through the room, as if making a swift inventory of physical objects.