"It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it."
"Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else."
"when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth."
"I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all."
"Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place."
"Without love we all like birds with broken wings."