As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199]

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.