The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.

I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin, and I could have said to him, "This is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who taught me to never give up. You taught me that new possibilities emerge for those who are prepared, for those who are ready. You have to believe!

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.