“The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.”
“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.”
“Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone.”
“Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?”
“Nonsense, my good man! What we lose in vigor, we only gain in wisdom.”