"When you really give yourself to the invitation to open your life up to another person and not just live in this self-contained world of your own, but to do that, that mysteriously this is the beginning of your self discovery. This is the beginning of finding out that you have a life and what that life is. That's the beginning of it."

"Two thousand years ago, Epicurus taught in his garden in Athens...and the thing he said I thought was particularly interesting was that it makes no difference whether you have pain surrounding you or misfortune or illness or any kind of suffering, as long as you have some pleasure, it's all right. Don't expect all of life to be pleasurable."