"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there…"

"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water and time."

"To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?"