“You made me feel alive again.”

“How can I go forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing?”

“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”

“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”

“The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.”

“The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.”

“You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?”

“Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.”

“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.”

“You learn something valuable from all of the significant events and people, but you never touch your true potential until you challenge yourself to go beyond imposed limitations.”

“If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to “explain,” which usually implies that the explanation be “understood,” i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.”

“Enjoy every step you take. If you’re curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life.”