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

We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

What's wrong with being number two?

Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

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.

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.