He didn't speak much but the little he said kept me busy.

All you could do was hope for silence, for still air.

Life was complicated, I thought. Not just the living but dealing with the realities and the instinct for order that other people have, that I didn't always grasp.

Strange that, the way happiness only works in retrospect.

Don't be discouraged by people who tease you out of your dreams. What you have in your heart is bigger than what they have on their lips!

To love can mean 'to love oneself, ' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

Learn to think continentally.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're with your friends.

Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.

Is there a medical rule that requires doctors-office personnel to treat you as though you have the IQ of a Cheeto?

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.