“When we are doing nothing in particula, it is then that we are living through all our being.”

“We're all human beings,when did we change to havings?Living out our life through things.How do we get back to being again?”

“But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.”

“We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.”

“Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the world knows all too well is also rooted in our own impulses. Through compassion we also sense our hope for forgiveness in our friends' eyes and our hatred in their bitter mouths. When they kill, we know that we could have done it; when they give life, we know that we can do the same. For a compassionate person nothing human is alien: no joy and no sorrow, no way of living and no way of dying.”

“Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.”