My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.

A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most.

Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else.