“The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.”

“What can you do when everyone around you is strong and clever?”

“I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A river, suffering because reflections of clouds and tress and not clouds and trees.”

“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as Ive said before, bugs in amber.”

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

“My brothers faces haunt me. I hear their children, my nieces and nephews, asking me why I came home without their daddies. I think of their wives, imagine their questions. Our parents, forever seei...”

“Every day I thank God for giving me a little kind heart which bears this life”

“By their actions, they will show you who they are.”

“We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another ...”

“I asked my dad what people would remember sooner, the things I said or the things I did. His response was: Forgive me, but what people?”

“I kept returning to this new and bizarre question: is there anything that actually is as it seems? Is anything perceptually straightforward? Maybe thats inherently impossible, because impressions a...”