“We ought to live each day as though it were our last day here below. But if I did, alas, I know it would have killed me long ago.”

“A bit beyond perception's reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other’s key.”

“It ought to be plain how little you gain by getting excited and vexed. You'll always be late for the previous train,and always on time for the next.”

“MAKING AN EFFORTOur so-called limitations, I believe,apply to faculties we don't apply.We don't discover what we can't achieveuntil we make an effort not to try.”

“Love while you've got love to give.Live while you've got life to live.”

“Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,and you're hampered by not having any,the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny.No - not so that chance shall decide the affairwhile you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air,you suddenly know what you're hoping. ”

“Knowing whatThou knowest notIs in a senseOmniscience.”