And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.

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.

Sleep disorders are a known occupational hazard to astronomers and their support staff.

Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.

We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.