Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.

Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-produ cing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.

Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.