My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

Life's a car ride...Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.

Never underestimate yourself

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

... the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul--the heart's desire, so to speak. Not all dreams, maybe, but the important ones. [p.254]

But at the most basic level, doctors need to be able to come forward with their errors and near-misses, otherwise we will never know where the problems lay.

Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

Every pot must sit on its own bottom.

You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

Take care of yourself, and do unto others as you would have done to you.

I've kind of achieved everything I thought that I never would, so I haven't really got a bucket list. But I really wanna go to loads of different places.

I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

Landon Loucas Maxfield was asleep on his sofa. With me.