“If you ignore your feelings they will get your attention in other ways.”

“I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip one hour more of sleep and live.”

“I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.”

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

““That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.””

“People change and forget to tell each other.”

“Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.”

“You’re told that you’re in your head too much, a phrase that’s often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there’s another word for such people: thinkers.”

““Happiness depends upon ourselves.””

“There are different ways of loving, aren’t there?”

“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”

“People never learn anything by being told. They have to find out for themselves.”

“Don’t explain. People only hear what they want to hear.”

“Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves.”

“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”