It doesn't seem right to throw dirt at you when you're dead...

I’m fading, Bethany, I know it. I think that’s what happened to my dad, that’s why I can’t see him. One day I’ll be so see-through that you’ll forget I was ever here, just like everyone else has.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

Pure heart begets pure body, soul and spirit.

How are we ever going to understand what happens when a civilization comes apart at the seams, as it did in Germany, if we fail to see the most glaring distinctions, such as the gender gap?

there is no such thing as shut doors, just ones that have yet to be opened!

When the sun shines wondrously in the morning, even the shadows in our mind start running away!

If you’d just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, you’d be better off accidentally than you’ve ever been on purpose!

National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution.

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.