“If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.”

“If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.”

“Think about a night like that often enough, you'll ask yourself a lot of questions. Most of them about yourself. The kind of person you are. What you'll do and why and when you'll do it. What you believe in. What you really believe in.”

“You have to live life like it's all you have left. Do something to get yourself out there, find something to make you known. Nobody is nothing, we all have a part to act, and the show can't go on without you.”

“If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.”

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”