“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.”

“Bad days happen to everyone, but when one happens to you, just keep doing your best and never let a bad day make you feel bad about yourself.”

“People’s stories are never finished, not as long as they’re alive.”

“We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.”

“Years dwindle, a countdown in reverse — many scratch Bucket Lists of all not done to be done. Not I — No lists of incomplete dreams, not because I have none but because they no longer matter — I have what I need, the rest is waste —a lesson of age…

‘Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”