“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
“Recovering from the death of your mother is not about forgetting, it's about feeling entitled to remember.
“Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years
“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught
“In one of the stars, I shall be living. In one of them, I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night
“To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead
“If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to heaven and bring you home again
“At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people