“We have to live within the framework of our limitations and the mistakes we make. Argue with Destiny, but never try to wrestle it into submission. If you do, youll end up losing.”

“I dont enjoy surprises that compel me to renegotiate my relationship with the past.”

“Stop trying to be a magician. The past wont come back. It likes its safety in memory.”

“I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. Its a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.”

“If manifestations of her love are overwhelming and sometimes seem imprudent, its because the intensity of such caring doesnt exist in other areas of life. Ma does not love from behind a protective ...”

“I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.”

“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.”

“I have come to believe that we steer our individual spheres of being through the spectra of possible worlds via the choices we make, the acts we perform. Most people stick to known routes, and ther...”