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

What's wrong with being number two?

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.

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did we would do things differently. Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, "Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy-and you believe them! It's such nonsense.