...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

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

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.

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

Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.

You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.