We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside.

An optimist is a braver cynic.

The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no

His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to whom he was pledged. Three million. They were the currency of his freedom.

She expected no judgement and wanted no pity.

And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.

There is enough work for everyone. May you find your purpose and passionately live it.

Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift ourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health—body, mind, and spirit.

I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.

I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

I was tired of playing the goodie-two-shoes.

If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.

Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles... Look over and above them.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.