“We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.”

“Everyone wants to be the one to get the mattress pad. ... We can do this. We all love to do. The more we can do, the less we have to sit and stare at trees and think about the transient nature of life." - 131”

“-Can we have one day when we don't have to talk about the meaning of life?-I don't think we ever talk about anything else.”

“Life, he says, doesn’t have to be so bad all the time. We don’t have to be anxious about everything. We can just be. We can get up, anticipate that the day will probably have a few good moments and a few bad ones, and then just deal with it. Take it all in and deal as best we can.”

“Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.”

“We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.”