What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. - Robertson Davies

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not mattered, has not contributed in some way to the totality.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.