“You’ve climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.”

“Not all dreams are possible or realistic. When this happens you have to bade them farewell. This isn’t failure, but it’s a sign of maturity and learning on your part. All you need to do is rethink what you wanted to do, in the first place,and see what you can change.Then that is called determination and that, will lead to you having success.”

“Like growth, success is often a steppingstone from failure.”

“Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.”

“It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous.”

“It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is”

“At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about ‘petty personal problems’ was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one’s own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotions—and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas—can’t be yours alone. […] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one’s unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.”

“There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.”

“As theologians, we must say more than we can be in the hope that others will make us more than we are. What is crucial is that we not write to justify the limits of our lives.”

“The more one knows, the sooner one grows old,” Midnight returned cheerfully.”

“The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.”

“I will come back to you, I swear I will;And you will know me still.I shall be only a little tallerThan when I went.”

“You are never too old to become younger!”