“but the effort of setting the table, heating up the food and then washing the dishes seemed to him tonight a superhuman one.”

“In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatically, the tiny grains were rushing through the opening, each grain more eager to leave then the l...”

“One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.”

“Don't let the devil hear you, minister, The devil has such good hearing he doesn't need things to be spoken out loud, Well, god help us then, There's no point asking him for help either, he was bor...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it's some big scary thing, but it's the familiar that's always bothered me. It's heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it's walls and a ceiling a...”

“Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?”

“If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money”