There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.

Anger is a passion, so it makes people feel alive and makes them feel they matter and are in charge of their lives. So people often need to renew their anger a long time after the cause of it has died, because it is a protection against helplessness and emptiness just like howling in the night. And it makes them feel less vulnerable for a little while.

Some men are more perfect than others.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.