It's a mother's greatest privilege to give birth, to raise a child. But a woman's greatest honor is to look at her son with pride and know that she's helped him become a man.

Hope always comes after evil has done its work. We cannot keep living on hope, though. (Box of Pandora)

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

When you go into the causal realms you become someone else. The light vibrates very quickly. You will see that you are a concurrence of light - taken shape and form in the body you now occupy.

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.