"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

You're not going to fix things by helping 65-year-olds or 75-year-olds for any long run.

And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone

My writing habits are pretty static. I get up every morning between 6 and 7 am, grab a cup of coffee, say a few prayers, and go downstairs to my office and start writing.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

She had a bottomless well of love for me.