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

We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country…. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

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

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.

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.

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.