“The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.”

“Is it fair for the bears to come down to where humans live, looking for food? Is it fair for the Duke's soldiers to shoot at them? Is it fair for the bears to crush them with giant snowballs? Often, if you point out something that isn't fair, someone will reply, "Life isn't fair." What is to be done with such people?”

“It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.”

“It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”

“In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.”

“...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”

“Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.”