The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.

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.

The poem must resist the intelligenceAlmost successfully.

You are far more than a biomass

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate.

Just stand. Bend. Balance.

If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

Never miss a party if you can make it!

The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.

Only the insecure strive for security.