“Life is not what you have or what you can keep. It is what you can bear to lose.”

“You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they stay, it's for the same two things." "What?" "Love and gelato.”

“Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?”

“For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.”

“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.”

“If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you”

“Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.”

“The moral of the story is: We thrive when we have a positive goal to move toward, not just a negative state we’re trying to move away from.”