"If relationships matter most then [at the end of our lives], shouldn't they matter most now?"

“All experiences, what does not kill you makes you stronger and tougher I think. Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant, unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, season you somehow and you learn from them.”

“Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.”

“Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.”

“After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some of it down...but really what would have been the point in that? Everything passed, she would too. This perspective offered her an unexpected clarity she nearly enjoyed, but even with this new clarity the world offered no more explanation for itself than it ever had.”

Source : Susan Minot (2010). “Evening”, p.17, Vintage

“The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evidentthat we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend.”

“I want to show people there's more to me than they think.”

Source : "For Rebecca Black, It's The Friday, Friday, Friday After 'Friday' Video Went Viral" by Eliot Glazer, www.mtv.com. March 18, 2011.

“It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.”

“Whatever other children learn in a year, let Bahá’í children learn in a month. The heart of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá longeth, in its love, to find that Bahá’í young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainments. There is no question but that they will exert all their efforts, their energies, their sense of pride, to acquire the sciences and arts.”