“Whatever your passion is - even if you're great at it - it can't be the only thing you do... If you do, you'll be great at that one thing... and bad at everything else... Getting that balance is not easy...”

“It's a lovely day todaySo whatever you've got to doYou've got a lovely day to do it in, that's trueAnd I hope whatever you've got to doIs something that can be done by twoFor I'd really like to stayIt's a lovely day todayAnd whatever you've got to doI'd be so happy to be doing it with youBut if you've got something that must be doneAnd it can only be done by oneThere is nothing more to sayExcept it's a lovely day for sayingIt's a lovely day!”

“If there is one thing I'd learned about hospitals, it's that they aren't interested in healing you. They are interested in stabilizing you, and then everyone is supposed to move on. They go to stabilize some more people, and you go off to do whatever you do. Healing, if it happens at all, is done on your own, long after the hospital has submitted your final insurance paperwork.”

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”

“The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.”

“You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.”

“Find a way to say yes to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learn something new. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new, and make a difference. Yes lets you stand out in a crowd, be the optimist, see the glass full, be the one everyone comes to. Yes is what keeps us all young.”