In 'The Allure of Hope,' Jan says, Eve was convinced that God was withholding something from her. Not even the extravagance of Eden could convince her that God's heart is good.

This is why, if you want to get to know someone, you need to know their story. Their life is a story. It, too, has a past and a future. It, too, unfolds in a series of scenes over the course of time.

The adventures and work that we choose must fit the soul of the boy. One young man's adventure would be terrifying to another.

The outer life we live from ought (I ought to do this) rather than from desire (I want to do this) and management substitutes for mystery.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.

Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

La vita è un'avventura da vivere, non un problema da risolvere.

Pale wox I, and in vapours hid my face. Art thou, too, near such doom? vague

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.

Look at me Who am I supposed to be? Look at me What am I supposed to be? Look at me Oh my love

Luck is the residue of design.