“In half a century of challenge and learning and trial-and-error, each of us had struggled from hard times to a present lovely beyond our dreams.”

“It's hard, to live in the present. Right this minute. We spend most of our time in the past. Or in the future…about half in each. But to live in the present! Hardly anybody can do it.”

“All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness. ”

“Love at first sight is not complicated. In our dreams we build a woman, we give her life from our own life, and then we have to wait. Through trial and error we try to find that nameless ghost that’s haunting our most lonely of nights. And I felt as if I had found what I was looking for. Finally, my ghost had a name and a face.”

“Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.”

“Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.”