The length of your days does not belong to you.

Love wins, love always wins.

Please, please, please, please, please...,", squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.