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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead – and that one was myself.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it’s such an extraordinary part of our lives.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.