People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

But man invents nothing God did not create first.

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.