Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

The fight isn't over until you win.

If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.

Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.