Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

A journey is time suspended.

But even the law cannot be in your bedroom at night.

Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.