“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”

You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.

We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.

It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just exist as an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever, lost.  

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.

Depression is the absence of hope.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Closed doors were once always left open, same goes for the heart.

When you’re green, your growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.