Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you’re with.

The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.

Build a little community of those you love and who love you

When you learn to die, you learn to live.

All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.