I said in an interview at the time that God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.

Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.