The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now. And I'm much less likely to be indifferent. For me, indifference is the end of life.

To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

Love requires imagination more than experience.

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.