“I don't want to live in the strongest country in the world, I want to live in the freest.”

“More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.”

“Life is an adventure! So live it up!”

“There’s a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don’t want to live, you’re really just empty.”

“I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure. I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.”

“It’s not the people in your life that tell you what you want to hear, it's the people in your life that tell you the truth that count.”

“When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.”