I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.

Love is not like a buffet line where the person in front of you threatens to take too much and leave too little for you. Love is like a muscle; the more it is exercised today, the more it can be used tomorrow.

What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared. Life is not a resource to be used up, so that the older we get, the less life we have left. Life is the accumulation of wisdom, love and experience of people encountered and obstacles overcome. The longer we live, the more life we possess.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.