Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.

What has been is no more. Change has come.

Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.