“There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.”

“The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?”

“Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?”

“Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.”

“I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble ...”

“Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”

“Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”