when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.

If God wants it, it will happen.

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.

Please, please, please, please, please...,", squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.

In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.