Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hands are clenched, right? Like this?He made a fist.Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants...

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?' His voice dropped to a whisper. 'But...

Take any emotion-love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions-if you don't allow yourself to go all the...

if you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed."She paused. "And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At...

This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.

Are you seeing anyone romantically? he inquired.No, I'm not, she replied.Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.

the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.

the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.

...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.

I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we...

The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.

Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world.

sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.

There is no formula to relationships.

You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring...

You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we dont know everything. And since we dont know everything, we must accept that another...

I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them...

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.

A child embarrassed by his mother," she said, "is just a child who hasn't lived long enough.

The length of your days does not belong to you.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.