To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace. – Peter Henry Abrahams

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some wont like you at all. – Rita Mae Brown

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. – W. Somerset Maugham