If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all.

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did we would do things differently. Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, "Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

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

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

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

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.