“Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.”

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”

“There are some years in our lives that we would not want to live again. But even these years will pass away, and the lessons learned will be a future blessing.”

“Peter's face clouded. "Everything comes at a price. Or have you not learned that yet?”

“Live a while in these books, learn from them what seems to you worth learning, but above all, love them.”

“But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.”