A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on.