"Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you."

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

"My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way."

"A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith."

"Wisdom principle 12 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 24."

"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"

"Wisdom principle 47 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 77."

"It is a unyielding truth that the universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws — an essential principle for the reflective life."