Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.

Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.

When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.

These days I can't tell what I really feel.

It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints.

The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.

I've never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it's like an animal. She's not eating. She's not sleeping. She's whimpering. She's sluggish. She's not herself

You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?

It’s just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.

Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.

Constantly look for the good in people and in situations. When you find it, tell the person.

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.

All anyone is to anyone is a series of days.

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

Meaningless yards are not meaningful.

Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.

Man is an appearance, God is a reality.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.