“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.”

“Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.”

“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.”

“We are too often influenced by other people's opinions. We worry too much about what others think of us. We feel called to satisfy other people's expectations, when we know that's definitely not the kind of life we want to live.”

“Every man knows that in his work he does best and accomplishes most when he has attained a proficiency that enables him to work intuitively. That is, there are things which we come to know so well that we do not know how we know them. So it seems to me in matters of principle. Perhaps we live best and do things best when we are not too conscious of how and why we do them.”

“It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.”

“We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.”

“We are only afraid of the future, when we are not creating the present.”

“Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.”

“God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.”