“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”

“Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exact...”

“Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads...”

“Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.”

“Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence—neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish—it is an imponderably valuable gift.”