“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”

“Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.”

“It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.”

“Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.”

“The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.”

“Fear is incomplete knowledge.”

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”