“In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing — the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.”

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

“Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

“It annoys me when people say, ‘Even if you’re old, you can be young at heart!’ Hiding inside this well-meaning phrase is a deep cultural assumption that old is bad and young is good. What’s wrong with being old at heart, I’d like to know? Wouldn’t you like to be…