“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”

“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming...”

“Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.”

“Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.”

“I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”

“Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the so...”

“I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”

“Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the so...”

“Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key,...”

“Work like playing a video game, we can't move to a higher level by skipping or being bad at lower levels, the lower levels are made easy to polish our skill sets & analytic skills, like a video gam...”

“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”

“You make the world a better place by making daily improvements to become the best version of yourself.”

“The worst thing that can happen to you today is "nothing" because anything else, either good or bad, can help you learn to live life to the fullest.”

“Days come and go, but the only thing that remains within you are the lessons that you learn by each passing day.”

“If we let go of the past, we will never learn from our mistakes.”