Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

All of us are products of our childhood.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

We all owe death a life.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

Any place I hang my head is home.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.