"When I booked my first role, I felt completely validated in my pursuit, I had always wondered if I could actually do this for a living and once I booked my first job, it was like, "OK, someone other than me thinks I have a place on the screen."

"One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."

"Many thanks for your kind care for my health; I certainly have not been well for many weeks, and about a week ago I was very poorly. I have had a good deal of fever at times, and indifferent nights; b…"

"And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking…"

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."