“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”

“You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

“Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.”

“No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.”

“For there are no limits to the stars; their numbers are infinite. Which is precisely why I measure my love for you by them. An amount too boundless to count.”

“We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it—because we need it.”

“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”

“Give out what you most want to come back.”