I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

• People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
• Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
• I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
• Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
• It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
• Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
• It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
• For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
• I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
• We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.