Step back in perspective, open your heart and welcome transition into a new phase of life.

Fear is and has always been dead. It's how we picture it that makes fear come to life.

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?

Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.

We were sleeping on the same bed with our backs to each other trying to imagine a new life.

We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,on the star tree,pale with luminousocean leaves.

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.

We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a soul above buttons.

If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.