“The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.”

“Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.”

“They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody.”

“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”

“He was rarely happy throughout his life but he was a good Rider and a good man.”

“Find peace in where and what you are.”

“To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.”