"Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is."

"Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you."

"I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost."

"We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there."

"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."

"For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

"This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."

"It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it."

"Our life is what our thoughts make it."

"People say that eyes are windows to the soul."

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

"Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it."

"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."

"But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel."

"To perceive is to suffer."

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."

"Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free."

"I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves."

"If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like."

"The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be."

"Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page."

"Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today."