“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved.”

The words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

Remember, the only difference between ‘marital’ and ‘martial’ is where you put the ‘i’.

Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.

The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.

It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

The secret to happiness be satisfied and be grateful.

Scenery without solace is meaningless.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Life has to end, love doesn’t.

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don’t know the person I’m trying to become… You are not your past!

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that’s been given to them, and find some dignity.

When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.

When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.