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...

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier.The Reb and I watched in silence. After it ended, he asked, “Do you think those pills work?”Not like that, I...

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

My jaw dropped, … I felt shame that I had to find out over the television, then felt sorrow and a little grief that he was going to die.

It might seem strange to start a book with av ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just dont know it at the time

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

So, have we solved the secret of happiness?”I believe so,” he saidAre you going to tell me?”Yes.Ready?”Ready.”Be satisfied.”That’s it?”Be greatful.”That’s it?”For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you.”That’s it?He...

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you...

What is the reason?’ ‘Finish your journey and you will know.

Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you...

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I’ve never really dealt with religious things.

It’s the same thing with faith, by the way.” We don’t want to get stuck having to go to services all the time, or having to follow all the rules. We don’t want to commit...

Cuando cae un rayo después de que te hayas ido, o se estrella un avión en el que podrías haber estado. Cuando tu compañero de trabajo enferma y tú no. Creemos que esas cosas son...

It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Your father was no longer a young man. he was already in his fifties.’Fifty-six,’ Eddie said blankly.Fifty-six,’ the old woman repeated. ‘His body had been weakened, the ocean had left him vulnerable, pneumonia took hold...

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

Sentiment is wherever you go.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never realized I was doing it,

The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

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. The way you get meaning...

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more...

Time flies with you

I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.

Love lost is still love. It takes a different form, that ‘ s all. You can ‘ t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance...

the word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain– no matter how smart or accomplished–they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on...

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we...

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of...

I don’t know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it’s something that anyone can make – pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad – but it carries a certain taste of...

Mortality means you don’t have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you’re going to think: ‘I’ve left things a little late.’

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it’s a lifetime in itself.

None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded. But, … there is no such thing as “too late” in life.

Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward.

A funeral is no place for secrets.

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

You have to work at creating your own culture.

He thought I was just ignoring him, … I told him that if I had gotten the letter, of course I would have called. And he just let it go as if it never happened.

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.