There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Stop comparing yourself to others. Compare yourself to your perfect self version and start develop and progress step by step to get closer to your perfect version.

Have you noticed how vocabularies fluctuate in order to cope with our need to justify ourselves?

There is no place so dark that light cannot lead the way.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.

Of all our faults the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out.

Love yourself even when you don't measure up to your own expectations. You have a certain idea of what you should do and what you should be - it's only a silly idea that passes through your mind.

There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now.

Anyone who ain't family is opposition