“but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.”

“I am not my mother. I love her, but I am not her.”

“Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.”

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

“When the people whom we love the most leave us, we start learning to live with the shadows they have left inside us.”

“The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.”