“Teaching is a gift for both the recipient and the teacher.”

“God, thank you for waking me up this morning. I want to embrace every day, however limited my day may be, as a gift from God. I want to live this day to its fullest. I know there are things I can no longer do. I know I am facing daily limitations. But I want to focus on what I can do, not on what I cannot do. So help me God. I know this day will never be repeated. I know I cannot live it over again. Help me to live it to its fullest.”

“We change when the pain to change is less than the pain to remain as we are.”

“I loved you, you know... It's not my fault the world is what it is.”

“...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.”

“You didn't like it? Well, my next one will be even better!”

“The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films.”