Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Never tell a child that something it's too hard

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

What in life can love not penetrate?

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.