“We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.”

“A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.”

“We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.”

“We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.”

“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.”

“We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place...”