"The woman you are becoming will cost you people, relationships, spaces, and material things. Choose her over everything.”

"I want to do something splendid…something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I don’t know what, but I’m on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”

"Love her, but leave her wild.”

"Some people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.”