Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

I don't consider myself a politician or a hero. I'm a messenger. If Cambodia is to survive, she needs many voices.

Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

I want to do something I feel like I can do.

A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance.