“For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs infull view.”
“We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.”
“There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.”
“This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.”
“Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation”
“...For it began to occur to him that one way to become private was to respect another's privacy.”