“It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are...” — Francois Rabelais Quote

“It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.”

“Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.”

“If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.”

“Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.”

“I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.”

“The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.”

“When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story. It's Zero Hour.”

“If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today”

“A man who worries he's running out of time hasn't used his time well.”

“There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin.”

“The world is so big, Rachel," Borne had said to me. "It just keeps going and going.”