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

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.

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

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.

Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.

But history does repeat itself

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it; and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee; and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake.

In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.