“Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.”

“I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.”

“Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes. And very, very rarely - by some miracle of chance and coincidence, butterflies beating their wings just so and all the threads hanging together for a minute - you get the chance to do the right thing.”

“How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!”

“life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it.”

“I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.”