“Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.”

“Don’t hide your face with too much gunk,/Especially if it’s old and lined/Don’t answer e-mails when you’re drunk/Don’t live with thirty years of junk—/Those precious things you’ll never find/Stop, if the car is going “clunk.”

“Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.”

“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.”

“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.”