Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.

Faith is a flame of fire.

We're truly alive when facing the prospect of our own mortality, if you convince yourself that you'll live forever, you'll never really have lived at all.

the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

If you want to commit suicide why tell anyone? They'd ruin everything.

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

People are building communities of people who use video. They're sharing them. YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly.

I hope that my work helps people - that's the thing that drives me and keeps me going.

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.