“Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens.”

“To relinquish one of his/her unknown burden is both a blessing and a reward”

“Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way.”

“The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understand, and value nothing it cannot sell . . . The next hard time is just as real to him as the last, and so is the next blessing. The new ignorance is the same as the old, only less aware that ignorance is the same as the old, only less aware that ignorance is what it is. It is less humble, more foolish and frivolous, more dangerous. A man, Old Jack thinks, has no choice but to be ignorant, but he does not have to be a fool. He can know his place, and he can stay in it and be faithful.”

“He who is unaware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.”

“Blessed is he who can call his family friends and his friends family.”