“Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.”

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

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.

I have declined projects made under big banners because I didn’t have much to do in them.

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you’re letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

We fear rejection, want attention, crave affection, and dream of perfection.

The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I’m hardly a social reject.