“Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.”

“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.”

“We cannot alter facts but we can alter our ways of looking at them.”

“No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.”

“It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.”

“A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.”

“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.”