Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.

Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.