"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."

"Life itself is the proper binge."

"The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?"

"Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice."

"Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??"