Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being.

Healthy attention is to improve what can be improved and to accept what we cannot improve.

I call children "our ultimate investment."

Age teaches us how to be more aware of other people's feelings.

The spine should be empty so that energy moves up and down. I always felt this way as a child.

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.