It's always difficult to watch someone you love die.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

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.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

If God exists, he exists for all of us

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

It's the ones without scars - those are the people you have to watch out for.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?

You'd been petting a stuffed dog?' she said 'A dead one?' 'It was a really well stuffed dog' I clarified. 'I have seen some bad taxidermy. This was top-notch work. It would have fooled anyone.

Gratitude and fear can't stand the sight of each other.

Success is beautiful and dangerous.