"I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter."

"Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are"

"She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that."

"The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.I broke something, Old Man.How badly is it broken?It's in a million little pieces.I'm afraid I can't help you.Why?There's nothing you can do.Why?It can't be fixed.Why?It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces."

"I can't. You can't rewrite the past."

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

"I will be stronger than my sadness."

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."

"It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions."

"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."

"Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."

"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."

"The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death."

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

"LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life."

"Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet."

"You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead.Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best.Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.Except when you don't.Because, sometimes, you won't."

"Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."

"Running isn't a sport for pretty boys...It's about the sweat in your hair and the blisters on your feet. Its the frozen spit on your chin and the nausea in your gut. It's about throbbing calves and cramps at midnight that are strong enough to wake the dead. It's about getting out the door and running when the rest of the world is only dreaming about having the passion that you need to live each and every day with. It's about being on a lonely road and running like a champion even when there's not a single soul in sight to cheer you on. Running is all about having the desire to train and persevere until every fiber in your legs, mind, and heart is turned to steel. And when you've finally forged hard enough, you will have become the best runner you can be. And that's all that you can ask for."

"Live free or die."

"I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself."