If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.

It was not a life, if lived without love.

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there. I've begun to think we sit far more than we're supposed to." He smiled. "Why else would we have feet?

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.