“If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.”

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

“God gave burdens also shoulders.”

“If I try to be like him who will be like me?”

“He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.”

“The world is more exacting than God himself.”

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only ...”

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”