With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have

God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.

Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.