Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.

Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.

Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.