It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

• I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
• Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
• I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
• Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
• Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
• Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
• It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
• Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
• America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
• The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.