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.

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

When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.

I said in an interview at the time that God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave.