The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.

Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.

Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.

I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in our path for a reason. The briefest encounter can open a door, or heal a wound, or close a circle that was started long before your birth.

The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.