Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.

Life is a race; desire the goal.

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

Spread your wings of love, and let your mind fly to a distant land where love is the air of life.

There isn't music without rhythm

All I've ever wanted was a place to belong, and someone to belong to.

[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

Perfectionism is searching for faults to justify low self-esteem. It is a guaranteed failure and fantasy.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.

I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.