It seems like people are all the time making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true vision when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.

How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.

I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.

Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think.

You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I'm the one who's here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go.