How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

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

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Life is a practice. When you 'fail, ' you can immediately begin practicing again.

Faith is above all openness an act of trust in the unknown.

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

I didn't have a very religious family.

Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.