"Stop searching the world for treasure, the real treasure is in yourself."

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."

"And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing."

"What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone."

"You gotta take chances in this life or you're alreadydead."

"If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air."

"Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!"

"I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane."

"Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory."

"The night is just a part of the day"

"You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it."

"It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge"

"Sometimes life doesn't happen in chronological order."

"I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist."

"We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place."

"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck"

"Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one."

"But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak"

"I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it."

"It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover."

"The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come."

"You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place."