"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."

"It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze.The day on which you arewithout passionate loveis the most wasted day of your life."

"Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in."

"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."

"Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed."

"The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do."

"Find a voice in a whisper."

"Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual."

"Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable."

"Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places."

"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."

"Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you."

"If you say that you never lie in life,you honestly insult my intelligence."

"If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth."

"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

"I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies."

"My name is Jimmy,but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy."

"The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us."

"Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy."

"Stop giving your life away to other people."

"Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need.Wish for nothing largerThan your own small heartOr greater than a star;Tame wild disappointmentWith caress unmoved and coldMake of it a parkaFor your soul.Discover the reason whySo tiny human midgetExists at allSo scared unwiseBut expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise."

"Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood."