I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.

When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.

I know what the fear is.The fear is not for what is lost.What is lost is already in the wall.What is lost is already behind the locked doors.The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

If you're using most of your energy to do stuff for your kids, then you'll have that much less energy to just be there for them.

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.

The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public.

Nobody's death is impending." ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.

I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.