“Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.”

“It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.”

“Well, everything comes to an end, sooner or later," she said. "Everything begins and ends. Everything changes.”

“(The presence of evil) in his life provokes him into either overcoming it or yielding to it. If the first, it has led him to work for his own improvement; if the second it has led him to acknowledge his own weakness. Sooner or later, the unpleasant consequences of such weakness will lead him to grapple with it, and develop his power of will...Immediately and directly, it may either strengthen him or weaken him. Ultimately, it can only strengthen him.”

“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”

“Live in moment, every day is the new beginning of life and every night is the end of life.”