That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons.

Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.

One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.

The old are a regular subject for sympathy.

The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.

Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.

people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

New morning, new moment in time.

There is no membership required for shining the light.

The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

Yes, I'm a nice man and I enjoy babies. I'm a sensitive guy. I held a baby the other day and it was the first time either of us cried.

My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.

I care not who controls a nation's political affairs, so long as I control her currency

The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness.

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.