He may only get to keep that which he is willing to let go of.
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.
In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
Each of us is ultimately alone.
Often things are as bad as they seem.
For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)