The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

Writing is the easiest way to escape from the real world.

I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.

OUR Abundance IS inevitable

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

It's best to give while your hand is still warm.

All is to be doubted.