Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.

I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.