Even five minutes of your time can make someone’s day,

I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.

He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.

It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better

Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty, ” they’d joke.Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.

I hope you're not smoking in front of her, ' Lucia says to him.'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia, ' he says, irritated.

Does it help?” he asks. “The e-mailing.”She nods. “A tiny bit. It’s strange. You’re writing a letter to someone who’s never going to read it, so it kind of frees you up a bit.

There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

A lot of shows start at one place, and then each episode is like a new little circle, often getting smaller.

Don't throw up your hands or abandon your values when you run into political difficulties. Stop, get a sense of the political terrain, and experiment with some ways to move cautiously forward.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.

You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.