“Everyday some people discover you! What good things have you got for them? Just like preparing a soup, prepare good things and keep them ready for the people who discover you!”
“What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?”
“But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.”
“America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.”
“Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.”
“I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and terrible at others. And if you're human, you are too. You'll have to discover the one thing that you are good at and major in it.”