"I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life."
- Simon Van Booy
"Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them."
"I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change."
"Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept."
"Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.It's the greatest legacy you could ever le..."
"...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better."
"Every moment is the paradox of now or never."
"[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them."
"I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted."
"Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be."