The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.

People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

Scenery without solace is meaningless.

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.