...it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences
in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension
of beauty.
-- Kundera
Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life he should
carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his
community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbors,
his fellow men, and the cause of freedom....
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profi is ready to lay
down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he
has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances
for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man....