By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

I've lived my life again just telling it to you.