The moment you stop trying is the moment you start dying.

When you’re young, you presume there’ll be many people with whom you’ll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.