“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

“Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.”

“…As soon as you start rewriting your past you realize how your failures and mistakes are what define you. Take them away and you’re nothing.”

“To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.”

“There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.”