“There is no happiness if the things you believe are different than the things you do.”

“Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.”

“Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.”

“involution always precedes evolution”

“And just holding her hand would be good. Can you understand that? Do you know that holding someone's hand can be `the' thing? Such a thing that your hands move while not moving. You can remember a thing like that, rather than any other thing about a night, all your life. Just holding hands can mean more, I believe it. When everything is repeated, and over, and familiar, it's the first things rather than the last that count.”

“The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.”

“Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.”