“If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain”

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.”

“But I'll tell you something else, too. Something I've learned, the hard way. I guess"—Gram laughed a little—"I'm the kind of person who has to learn things the hard way. You've got to hold on. Hold on to people. They can get away from you. It's not always going to be fun, but if you don't—hold on—then you lose them.”

“The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.”

“It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.”

“One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better.”