"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"Truth is the essential foundation for producing good outcomes."

"Don't let fears of what could go wrong stand in the way of what could go right."

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."