“I sensed that almost all of them knew they didn't have much more time on earth. Maybe this accounted for their willingness to pitch in with strangers and form a neighborhood.”

“-I didn't mean to hurt you.-You shouldnae have been able to.She blinked at that, but knew what he meant.-I suppose not, no. we're still strangers. More or less.-Only in the measure of time could we consider ourselved that.(Graham & Katie)Some Like It Scot”

“Maybe people are strangers because time makes them strangers, not because you don't know them, and people you've never met are strangers because you've spent so long not knowing them.”

“Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time.”

“The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.”

“He said, 'Charlie, how would you treat people if you knew you didn't have to fix them? If you knew that was God's job, and all He was asking of you was show them His love, maybe tell them some things He wanted them to know?”