“Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.”
“Nonetheless, out of a life of 60 or 70 years, three years is more than a thousand days and a thousand nights”
“It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years. ”
“Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.”
“Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!”
“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”