Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

What will you do with the time you have left?

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

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