Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

"Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it."

"I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means."