“How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?”

“I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.”

“I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart. ”

“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”

“Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?'No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.'He paused. And that is how I began to heal.”

“If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.”

“How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.”