After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims....and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But - how can I put this? I'm almost......drawn to them.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.