Royce Aldridge

“[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.... Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachments to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”
― Joseph Campbell

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.”
― Terry Brooks, A Princess of Landover

“Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.”
― Stephen King, Just After Sunset