People often belittle the place where they were born.

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

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somehing else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

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

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.