No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.