A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, you know?

I'm chaos, I've always been chaos, my point on Earth is chaos.

Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together to make a positive social change.

Racing, for me and for most people that watch it, it's about personalities.