“Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness.”

“Ultimately, and precisely in the deepest and most important matters, we are unspeakably alone; and many things must happen, many things must go right, a whole constellation of events must be fulfilled, for one human being to successfully advise or help another.”

“One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.”

“There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.”

“time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another.”

“Although beauty is a marvelous thing, we must discredit it in human relations, since it has little to do with love or happiness.”