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

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

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.

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.

Everything that gets born dies.

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

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.