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

“You can’t be the kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time—none, zero.” And “If it’s wisdom you are after, you are going to spend a lot of time sitting on your ass and reading.”

“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.”