"Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind."

"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."

"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf."

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

"I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end."

"Every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it."

"The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan."