"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next."

"Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial."

"The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't."

"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."

"There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started."

"I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected."

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."