"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peak of the mountain and shouted for joy."

"There is nothing in the world that can take the place of persistence."

"Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

"Gods always behave like the people who created them."