The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.

Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other.