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I write to breathe life back into memory.

Listen, if you choose to believe nothing else that transpires here, believe this: your body does not have a soul; your soul has a body, and souls never, ever die.

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I’d done since I went out on my own at 15.

Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid’, the king explained, ‘I have decided to hedge my bets’.

Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?

Since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.

Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.

Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.

When I see it lumbering down the mountain road like a tank . . . I flag it down like an old friend. I’ve waited on this corner every Friday since I can remember.