“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.”

“If you wait, all that happens is you get older.”

“The mature response to the problem of existence is love.”

“Happiness is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.”

“Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don’t. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.”

“When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.”