“It is always harder to make time for the truly precious experiences; there is always the ordinary to do.”

“And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame.”

“The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.”

“Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.”

“That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.”

“America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.”