There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet.

Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.