“Learning, over and over. The work of love will make you bloody and it will make you lonely.”

“Assume you will make enemies. Work to make allies. Don't expect to make friends. Friends are a gift that happens over time.”

“Go out into the world, find work that you love, learn from your mistakes, and work hard to make a difference.”

“Sometimes it's just over and you can't make it all right. Justification by works: an overrated idea.”

“Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so desperately that it wrecks your insides, you say their name over and over until you conjure then. It's called sympathetic magic and you just have to believe in it to make it work.”

“It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.”