The wind goes to the south and circles around to the north; round and round the wind goes and on its rounds it returns.

I said of partying, "It is folly," and of self-indulgent pleasure, "It accomplishes nothing!"

Yet when I reflected on everything I had accomplished and on all the effort that I had expended to accomplish it, I concluded: "All these achievements and possessions are ultimately profitless -- like chasing the wind! There is nothing gained from them on earth."

God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.

The end of a matter is better than its beginning; likewise, patience is better than pride.

Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.