“I don’t believe in happy endings. It’s enough to feel life so intensely.”

“Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.”

“To fill the hour──that is happiness.”

“Wherever you are, you can pray.”

“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and Nothingness and realized that I remembered absolutely nothing when I finished it. I used to go to the library every day and read every day for eight hours. I’d dropped out of high school and had to teach myself. I read Sartre without any background. I just forced myself and I learned nothing.”

“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.”

“Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.”

“The South African artist William Kentridge speaks to this type of certainty: ‘To say that one needs art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one’s own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.’The outcome of the current crisis is already determined.”

“Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.”

“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”

“Success breeds ambition, and our recent achievements are now pushing humankind to set itself even more daring goals. Having secured unprecedented levels of prosperity, health and harmony, and given our past record and our current values, humanity’s next targets are likely to be immortality, happiness and divinity.”

“It’s a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.”

“There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you?But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for a moment.No wind whatsoever brought you now.Now you’re here.What you were isn’t you, or else the whole rose would be here.”

“With time comes perspective.”

“Music is my higher power”