The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

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

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.

We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

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

You're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college, if you don't address the basic problem of literacy in America. And there's no reason - no reason - for us to have that problem.