'Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was'.

'You are so busy being you that you have no idea how unprecedented you are.'

'But I did not fail to note: the sky does not fall if you choose to let down your hair.'

'There is beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we ever expect it to be.'

'Guilt is a wasted emotion, you know? Look back on the past but don't stare.'

'And it struck me then that the most difficult thing had been the decision to act, the rest had been merely tenacity - and the fears were paper tigers. One really could act to change and control one's life; and the procedure, the process, was its own reward'.

'Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got'.

'So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying'.

'Who can believe that nothing remains? Who does not strain to see the tiny fragments of a life that refused to be extinguished?'

'Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever'.

'I would like to have seen the world with eyes incapable of anything but wonder, and with a tongue fluent only in praise'.