“It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.”

“God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. . . . God will tutor us by trying us because He loves us, not because of indifference!”

“...Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.”

“Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if only you pull it in the right way.”

“There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.”

“The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far... The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.”