“We will have many relationships over the course of our lives. Some of us will have them with the same person.”

“[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air … Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago.”

“A good friend is a connection to life- a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”

“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”

“Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.”