"The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human."

"Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter."

"We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot."

"I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine."

"It is a enduring truth that the river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact."

"If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important."

"A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway."

"The paradox of freedom is that the only true currency in life is time well spent."