“The heart does not know chronos time, Maisie.”

“The extraordinary hides behind the camouflage of the ordinary. Assume nothing, Maisie.”

“I'll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this precious jewel is the opening of your heart to all that is new and all that is different, and it will be the making of you-if you allow it to be.”

“. . . if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.”

“But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.”

“My child, when a mountain appears on the journey, we try to go to the left, then to the right. We try to find the easy way to navigate our way back to the easier path.…. But the mountain is there to be crossed. It is on that pilgrimage, as we climb higher, that we are forced to shed the layers upon layers we have carried for so long. Then we find that our load is lighter, and we have come to know something of ourselves in the perilous climb…..Do not seek to avoid the mountain, my child. For it has been placed there at a perfect time. It will only become larger if you seek to delay or draw back from the ascent. ”

“There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”