“Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.”

“Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...”

“All death matters.""Only to the living.”

“The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.”

“...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.”

“We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.”

“I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.”

“Love, too, has to be learned.”

“Every pain is a lesson.”