I told you I was ill. (On his headstone)
I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, 'He kept the paper straight.' And I think about that a lot.
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.
The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.
He hath awakened from the dream of life.
Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.
His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.
When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.
Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.
Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.
It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
Graved inside of it, "Italy".
Children bring their own love with them when they come.
Every man's life is a plan of God.
The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.
