“They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.”

Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession.

Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation.

We learn the true worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul…

Loving someone has great benefits.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated.

Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone.

So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go.

Tt continues while we’re still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we’ve worked out just what to do.

Four decades in which to live long and prosper.

Life is complicated. It wtarts before we’re ready

You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.

There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.

In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions.

That level of expectation that I’m going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them.

What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.

She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world.

No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can.

Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel’s milk!

He can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.