Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.
You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.
There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.
I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.
I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education.
I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.