When you've gone through something traumatic, when you've faced death and loss as much as we have, it's only natural that it changes your entire view of life.

...the only thing really worth doing in this life is giving love to everyone around you.

I realize in this moment that all my life I've felt that I deserve to be punished, for wanting so much, for taking so much from this world, from the people who love me.

I am them. And they are me. All of us, we are each other. There is no such thing as good-bye.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

If we fight with love, we will have no chance to lose.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

I suppose once upon a time a Test match was something you looked forward to go and watch. It's very hard to get the quality these days because the focus is more on quantity.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

The what-if's and the should-have's will eat your brain.

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

If you imagine whipping your skin every day, that's what it does and it's a full prosthetic piece.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.