“Don’t waste time defending your intentions. History will judge you by the outcomes of your actions”

“I did not find my way out of the darkness until I admitted I was lost.”

“A wolf searches the path for prey that has paused. Keep moving.”

“The path back home is often the most difficult journey of all.”

“I can only change the world by changing myself.”

“Not all paths offer a vista. But every path offers a lesson.”

“Some of the most memorable paths I’ve taken have been detours.”

“It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials – I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered – it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it’s only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.”

“I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like me. .. My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied. What happened to me?”

“Live a life that fits your specific circumstances, not one that fits someone else’s expectations”

“The path you walk today will determine where you are tomorrow.”

“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.”

“Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we’d be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that’s left.”

“sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn’t have time to live it.”

“The weight you life is not nearly as heavy as the weigh you carry.”