Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

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.

The meal is hot, but still delicious.Life is hard, but still beautiful.

It is amazing how women spend too much time and energy scheming, plotting and seducing men when they should spend more time listening, learning and getting over desperation.

Take care of your soul—your inner self—by feeding on the Word of God and letting His Spirit transform you from within.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.

The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!