Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father, and always with a sense of their strangeness. They sit and speak, and are spoken to, and listen, and even smile, but in spirit they have already moved away from us and there is no way we can enter their shadowy no-man’s-land.

We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.