Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

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

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.

We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

I'd always been interested in psychology.

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.

Everything that gets born dies.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

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

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you you must feel that you can trust them too even when youre in the dark. Even when youre falling.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in.

When you look at it that way you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that you have made the wrong choices in life, and now it's too late to do anything about them.

I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.

At 32, I kind of thought I was past the point where I was gonna get a break that really changed my life overnight.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.

Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.

We are all mediators, translators.

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

I'm one of the girls that you would love to have in your group of friends.

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

Winning isn't always championships.

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

If even dying is to be made a social function then grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

When I met Oprah, the first thing I thought was, 'She is the most amazing hugger ever.'

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.