Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

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

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

Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?

We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.