Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Philosophy is the highest music.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Taxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Every loss of life is terrible.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I have wondered about time all my life.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

My wife is already in Heaven.