“It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.”

Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?

Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.

If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.

If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.

Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.

We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.

Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.

Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.

Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.

There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.

In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.

what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.

There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.

A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.

I truly believe there should be no time limit to childhood.

I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.

You think you can’t change the world? You can.

I’m an artist. Artists don’t need permission to work. Regardless of whether I’m acting or not, I write. I write when I’m tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

The last thing my dad said to me before he passed away was, ‘I know you’re gonna be OK. I’m not worried about you’.

Only you and you alone can change your situation. Don’t blame it on anything or anyone.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.