“Pray for miracles, but plant cabbages.”

“Failure is the only damn way we learn. Have you failed? Yes. Will you fail more? All the time. And that’s the best thing that can ever happen to you. When you stop failing, you stop learning. And then you’re of no use to anyone.”

“…churches tend to keep on doing things the way they did them a generation ago. Maybe we don’t like to hear exhortations to reexamine our methods because we don’t like being pushed to alter the way we’ve always done things”

“Don’t let your past failure define your future”

“In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.”

“Mr. Codro’s destiny is Ptolemaic; in other words, based on fiction. Ptolemaic says it all; it means above all fixed and unchanging, that is to say different from real life which is by nature changing and temporary. It means: not according to natural truth, but according to man’s desire and the pretense inspired by his fear of dying and his desire for permanence.”

“What am I to do?What is my destiny?I have no idea, not a clueFeeling lost and empty.What is my dream?What is my future?I beg thee to listen to me,I beg thee to answer.”

“As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.”

“The new world is as yetbehind the veil of destinyIn my eyes, howeverits dawn has been unveiled”