“Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones:The history of how you felt.”

“I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.”

“It’s true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don’t meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly.There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.”

“It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.”

“You can’t explain love” he said out loud. “That’s how it gets ruined.”

“When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.”

“For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.”