My real story is this: I am the citizen daughter of immigrant parents who were deported when I was 14. My older brother was also deported.

I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise.

Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry? asked the duchess after a pause. Especially when one has been wounded by it, answered Lord Henry.

Try to bear lightly what needs must be.

Yes, everyone faces challenges in their lives, and people commonly say it doesn't matter what the challenge is; what matters is how one responds to it.

Job said, "Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face."

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

I'm going to live right on. Dying is none of my business. Dying will have to take care of itself. He came to me then, an old man weakened and ill, with my Nathan looking out of his eyes. He held me a long time as if under a passing storm, and then the quiet came.

But there, in her diminishment, she seemed to resemble only herself, as if suffering finally had singled her out.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.