“He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.”

“We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.”

“Do you want to retire early rich or retire late poor? Cosmic Ordering answers the first question!”

“He tried to calm his thoughts, but everything came back to what he'd almost done. Because he hadn't done anything, for years or ever, he had almost done this. Because he had no stories of valor, he had almost done this. Because the efforts he'd made towards creating something like a legacy had failed, he had almost done this.”

“He contained, even at an early age, a stirring and the desire to stir.”

“He had known it often enough. A delightful child, even a delightful early adolescent, interested in everything, alive,affectionate, would turn into a thick, heavy, stupid brute and never recover: ageing men would become wholly self-centered, indifferent to those who had been their friends, avaricious”