Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?

Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate.

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.