Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.

If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way

Change is inevitable and the ultimate way of life. Change creates new opportunities for new beauties in life.

All good Heroes are scared, if they know the evil they face.

I am a daylight atheist.

The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Let us then, be up and doing.

I'm healthier in California, probably a little happier, maybe.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative serves the needs of everyone everywhere.

There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet.