We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

True love stories never have endings.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.