“His hands struck her any hour of the day, like hands that strike a clock, whether early, whether late; they strike, they strike.”

“Life happens, whether you're in it or not, but death doesn't give you a choice.”

“No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad.”

“If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack,as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, empty of a soul.”

“A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.”

“Don't live life like it's another day, but live life like it's your last day.”

“Worrying is like a dominoes effect, that rolls from one day into the next, into a week, a month, a year;never accomplishing anything but stress, until it hits that last tile, which drops unfulfilled to an empty ground.”