“There are places I cannot visit. Places of unbearable sadness, grief, mourning. They say places are made by people. I say places are defined by the memories they conjure—the lunge of a curse, a shared and shattered history, a loved one drowned and lost in the ocean of forgetting.”

“Memory is all that matters in the end”

“You will always be special to someone. Unless you grow so old, everyone you knew went ahead”

“The time we were together, we were the best we can be for each other.”

“The most difficult lesson is not being bitter—that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.”

“It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.”

“I firmly believe that if you pray long enough, if you wish hard enough, God will grant you at least one wish in your lifetime.”

“A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.”

“We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.”

“The world is old and full of lessons. We will not lack for examples. We only have to look around carefully, earnestly, so we can learn and realize that success, to be genuine, must not be propelled by greed.”

“It is in the little moments that we live the longest. Everything else is existence.”