It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love.

There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.

We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties

When life puts you through a tumbler, it's your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

What you are going to do today should assume a bigger shape than what you have done yesterday.

Climate change is like my head: it’s not visible in every instance, but I’m pretty darn sure it’s there.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.