It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

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

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said." Love is the only rational act.

The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.