Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

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?

War pacifies itself.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of