I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now.

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

There is no place love is not.

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.