“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

“If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”

“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.”

“Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.”

“We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth— we call it life. We know no other.”

“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”

“A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”