“The good times and the bad times both will pass.”

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.

Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Grief does not change you, It reveals you.

There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.

The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

God knows that’s what everyone else does.

Change your thinking and change your life.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

I used to say, “I sure hope things will change.” Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

I want the world to be better because I was here.