Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

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.

Authentic people are instantly more likable and trustworthy, which makes building rapport with them a pleasure.

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

Don't take too much council from your fears.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.

I would challenge any American cook, regardless of what they've learned from their mom, to operate a restaurant and not have spent any real time in Italy.

I think Betty White is one of the sexiest women in America.

I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book