So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.