“Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.”

“I guess it's about what you have to give up to gain something else...Did you always have to give something up for a gain?”

“No matter how much you reach the moon...you can never actually grab it. Even if one knows that something is unreachable it's human nature to want to try over and over...again and again..not giving up...not able to give up...dreaming that someday that hand will reach the moon.”

“New languages are not something you can pick up overnight. They take time. Patience. The willingness to change the way you think about what you already know.”

“To be compromised you need to have a stake in things, you need to have something to lose and something to gain. You have to be risking yourself, not all the time, but enough of the time to be weighing things up, principle over self-preservation, the gains, the losses.”

“Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.”