Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

I've wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it's to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.