The Trade Center dead formed a kind of universal parliament.

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.

Each day has the potential of being your best day. You decide what each day will bring.

I was a person full of wishes but without a star.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

I'm falling, but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:—this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.