We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
He who laughs, lasts!
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.