Alice: I miss myself. John: I miss you too, Ali, so much.

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

Everything she did and love, everything she was, required language.

Take what you've learned and love someone again. Find someone to love and love without condition. This is why we're all here.

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.

I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me.

At some point, there would simply be no point.

But I am not what I say or what I do or what I remember. I am fundamentally more than that.

In the ladies' room, Alice studied her image in the mirror. The reflected older woman's face didn't quite match the picture that she had of herself in her mind's eye." p 35

Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.

You’re talking about gold and silver, cash and securities. I’m talking about the sheer beauty of the land, the value of unpolluted parkland made wild and staying wild forever.

A rabbi told me that when you have two problems - one near, one not so near - concentrate on the immediate one.

I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don’t even know until I see it.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

If you are happy, don't analyse your happiness, don't ask questions and don't even think about it; just live it to the fullest!

The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.

Elephants are contagious.

The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.