I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven't time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else's story, we come to understand our own.

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

Taylor, McKenna, Abigail, and Taylor simultaneously crouched over in pain.

The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity—awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime.

As appreciative as I had already been for their kindness, now I was astounded. In the midst of such heartbreak, this good couple had reached out to me in my pain. For the first time in a long while, I felt hope in humanity.

He had sensory processing disorder—something we didn't know about back then—and was highly sensitive to smells.

There are two ways of being strong: one is pushing people down, the other is pulling people up.