"What if I lose you?" "You can't lose your mother, Charley." - Mitch Albom

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

The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.