Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

Leave no path untaken.

You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. If you stay in your comfort zone! You would never do the things that you need to do.

There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

for the first time in an age, he saw the beauty of the stars, rather than the darkness between them.

If you can not get the results you need yourself, then it is time to get help from somewhere else.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

It's sick that I experienced a once in a lifetime love - still as strong as the day it happened - & have been punished every single day since.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.