Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.

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.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Love wins, love always wins.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

It is better to pray than panic.

Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

Then, if you love him," he said quietly, "please, Tessa, don't tell him what I just told you. Don't tell him that I love you.

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular culture in a way, or from the general public as you put it. But not as a program.

A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.