At our best, we're all teachers

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the American psyche. There is so much we can draw understanding from. One of the lessons is the development of courage. Because without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently.

Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.