If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.

It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.

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.

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.

It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth.

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

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