“Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”

“Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.”

“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.”

“Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.”

“Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”

“Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not mattered, has not contributed in some way to the totality.”