Life is like an 6-slice apple pie at a 12-guest dinner banquet. If you just sit back and wait for it to come to you, chances are, you're going to miss dessert.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

We must learn that when people devalue any one Life, they devalue all Life.