When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as a catastrophic illness, you either go in denial, or ultimately accept it and make space for it. And in making space for it, you illuminate a lot of things that you normally don’t have room for — you simply just look at the world differently.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live…..the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.