My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

When you want your message to be heard, always speak from your heart.

To turn down knowledge is to resign to ignorance.

Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

When I'm home in New York, I box every day.

If you stare into a flame You'll get an eye full of energy If you write your nightscapades You'll get a dawn full of promises

The original answer defines certain conditions. Anything else is a different question.

Surround yourself with people that are going to support you on your journey, and get rid of the ones that don't.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.