“Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.”

“...your mind was seizing on something to try to make sense of the emotion... Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?”

“The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.”

“When your only option is to jump, you jump and try to make it work.”

“You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326)”

“An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.”

“Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day.”