"Anderson Cooper: The Silver Fox – slideshow by Life magazine"

"Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like J…"

"We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence."

"But you are not overlooked by yourself, are you? nor by the other flies that wheel with you in your mazy circlings? I know how precious you are to yourself, though you cannot tell me in words, by the …"

"'A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.'"