Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.

Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.

That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during, the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.