"We are not immortal ourselves, my friend;..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.”

“Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.”

“An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.”

“Every human being in the human form has limitations.”

“Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.”

“Love is a fault; so be it.”

“Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.”

“I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.”

“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.”