Is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, And this too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

this too shall pass

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.

Nature's kind trick is to make everything happen so slowly that we don't get as scared as we should.

How did we ever get to believe that faithfulness involved simply retaining past forms and thinking? With the Creator God as our Father, how did we ever become the socially conservative stiflers of innovation that we are so notoriously perceived to be?

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

This is the end. For me the beginning of life.

The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

The idea that we could have avoided many of life's difficulties if we had taken things more cautiously is too foolish to be entertained for a moment. As I look back on your past I am so convinced that what has happened hitherto has been right, that I feel that what is happening now is right too. To renounce a full life and its real joys in order to avoid pain is neither Christian nor human.

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.