“It is said that one swallow does not make a summer, but can it be that because one swallow does not make a summer another swallow, sensing and anticipating summer, must not fly? If every blade of grass waited similarly summer would never occur. And it is the same with establishing the Kingdom of God: we must not think about whether we are the first or the thousandth swallow.”

“One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.”

“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”

“One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.”

“In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...”

“I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.”

“I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it.”