We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

We can possess nothing—no property and no person . . . It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.

I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it.

Everything that happens now in the online world is part of a conversation.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative

The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

Paris may be expensive but I love it. It's the one place to spend money and enjoy.

All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.