No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.

He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." Worse than an unanswered prayer? "Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.

sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

But man invents nothing God did not create first.