“We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.”

“Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.”

“But in life people come and go. We don't always have control over it. But we can control how we respond. We can keep going, keep living the best we can. We can love the people we have instead of shutting them out. We can do our best to get to know them in the time we have.”

“We cannot always do what is best, but we can do what is practical at the time.”

“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.”

“Sometimes we have to go through the darkness alone, before we can see the light.”