"Meaningful work and meaningful relationships are the keys to a good life."

"Don't let fears of what could go wrong stand in the way of what could go right."

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."