
For this is the journey that men
make to find themselves.
But, if a man happens to find himself,
if he knows what he can be depended on to do,
the limits of his courage,
the position from which he will no longer retreat,
the degree to which he can surrender his inner life to some woman,
the secret reservoirs of his determination,
the extent of his dedication,
the depth of his feelings for beauty,
his honest and unpostured goals.
Then he has found a mansion which he can inhabit
with dignity all the days of his life . . . James Michener |