“It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.”
“One never owns a book. It sits on your shelf in a fine edition like a piece of furniture, and you are its admiring ward until it flies off from you in a time of financial hardship. If it is a tattered paperback, she is your casual mistress you use a few times. If you have read it a hundred times then it is your wife, and a source of infinite mystery.”
“It's through hardship that greatness is born.”
“Time is not a means to keep or prove your worth in the world, but a means to experience the richness of all that is.”
“Oh, lovely world,' thought Sarah, in love with life and all its varied richness.”
“It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.”