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.

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

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

This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?