Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.

There is a reason God limits man's days.