“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”

“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.”

“You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought.”

“Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.”

“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

“Look for the good in every person and every situation. You’ll almost always find it.”

“We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.”

“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”

“Be an Encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.”

“People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people’s opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own shoreline is. The world is for your taking, but other people are not. One is only allowed to have an opinion of me, if that person is done educating him/herself on everything about me. Before people educate themselves on everything about you, they’re not allowed to open their venomous mouthes and have an opinion about you.”

“I am not good at noticing when I’m happy, except in retrospect.”

“I’d found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.”

“It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.”