“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

“Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left.”

“It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.”

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

“In my experience, most of us age away from brain and ambition toward heart and soul, and we bathe in relief that things are not worse.”

“Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstances, you have to remake your life.”