“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”

“When they say the sky’s the limit to me that’s really true”

“And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.”

“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.”

“A Photographer’s PoemTo take a photograph is to learn new stepsLike a toddler’s first walk from start to endVisualize a dream, a paradigm, a themeIt could be about anywhere, anyone, any moment or anythingLet that sink in until your eyes see clearlyWhat image you cease to create to preserve in dearlyWith a camera you take the picture in mindA photographer’s mistake is to leave it behindTake it wherever a journey is to take placeThere will always be something that comes across your ways”

“Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.”

“Emma laughed darkly. “It’s a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making engine.””I’m so glad,” I said. “Mine is a worst-case-scenario generator.””We need each other, then.””Yes. But we already knew that, I think.”

“a montage of potential,i’m the compliments they all lend me”

“Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it’s just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive.”

“Only when you accept that one day you’ll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that’s the big secret. That’s the miracle.”

“The more I work on happiness- the more I realize that you can’t seek happiness, you can’t find happiness- you simply have to remember to be happy.”

“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”