“Being ready is everything.”

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”

“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”

“Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.”

“She could slip out of her shoes and leave them right here, stuck in the muck, and then get rid of her dress and everything else: her mind, her life, her pain. The abandon of having nothing to lose, the freedom of being divested of all earthly burdens, ready for the Messiah, or death. Everything is attracted by its end.”

“Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. ”