I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

But still, like air, I'll rise

You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.

When I love somebody, I like him to be around; I like him to take me out to dinner; I like to look at the sunset with him. But if not, I love him and I hope he's looking at the same sun I am. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Some of this wisdom came to me after I was 50 or 60.

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it to your family, it's your gift of energy to them.