“It will take time to clear away the wreck. Though old buildings will eventually be replaced by finer ones, the new structures will take years to complete.”

“We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we make our own misery.”

“One day at a time.”

“When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away.”

“How did people have conversations anyway? How did they meet and then begin to talk as if they had known each other for years?”

“Through the years I had quit on everything that ever mattered: college, going for promotions, relationships - at least the relationships that demanded any work.”

“I simply had to believe in a Spirit of the Universe, who knew neither time nor limitation.”