“True happiness is not money in the bank or a fancy home-it's a forgiving heart filled with love and gratitude”

“Don't let anyone control how much, and who you give to-people have a way of spending your money”

“It doesn't matter how much money we have or how much we own here on Earth-we have to die and leave it all-that's the plain truth”

“True giving is not what goes on when the cameras are rolling-but what goes on in the heart.”

“He fell in love with her house and land,He fell in love with her pension plan,He worked his way to her lonely heart,He was quite wily from the very start.”

“Basic steps when giving:-Don't give to receive-Don't give to impress-No cameras-Include your heart”

“If you want to be happy, work with all your heart.”

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”

“I feel like Ive been split open and stuffed with sunshine.”

“It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.”

“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother...”

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”