“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”

“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.”

“Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.”

“Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.”

“You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish tohave, be anything you wish to be.”

“So it's pretty simple for me: Love when you can. Do the work that is yours to do. Be the person that is yours to be at any given time. Think to wish for what is yours at this very moment. To love. To serve. To touch. To know. Think to wish for all that is yours to have. Think to wish for all that is yours to do. And think to wish that you might be who it is that you might most fully be. Avoid wishful thinking. Avoid the traps and pitfalls of nostalgia for the past. Savor every moment as it passes. And enlist yourself in saving that which can be saved this very moment, ir order that it, too, may endure for others to enjoy.”