“It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.”

“Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.”

“Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try ...”

“I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary.”

“Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.”

“I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.”

“Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.”

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

“Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.”

“I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.”

“My heart is a compass, and it always leads me back to you.”

“Your passion is your internal compass that will guide you from where you are towards where you want to go.”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

“Men work together,' I told him from the heart,'Whether they work together or apart.”

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”