Let everything you do project Upward and it will always be projected in the best ways inward and outward.

Before you may ever have to say, I'm sorry for such a loss... make sure you live as one who was part of those who stand alongside and say, we did every possible thing we could.

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.

Deep thoughts without determined actions are like chasms without ropes or bridges.

What if today were going to be your last day? ...your last day to say all you wanted to say... your last day to make breakfast for someone you love... to share an act of kindness... your last day to bring a certain hope otherwise left unknown. Today is your last day... your last day to ever leave these things in the hands of uncertainty.

What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to completing and so that's what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they'd really sink in, so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the paint and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.