“Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.”

“Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.”

“Other people may complicate our lives but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.”

“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”

“At some point, you just have to accept who you are and apologize as necessary.”

“ If we know what we truly regret, we know what we truly value.”