You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.