It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of love no longer stirred up agonies of grief and bitterness. Rather, one was left feeling simply grateful. For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember.

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.