I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

I am every age, up to my own.

You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.

Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.

No soul remembered is ever really gone.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

I saw in her expression that old, unshakable mountain of concern. And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know

If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're...

Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.

The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one .

People say they "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a CERTAIN love.

What's wrong with being number 2?

Love each other or perish.

Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.

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.