“You are not a terrible person. But the world is a terrible, HORRIBLE place. What you've got to do is take all that rage and all that hatred that's inside of you and turn it around. You've got to stop trying to destroy yourself. Turn that rage outward, go out and try to destroy the WORLD instead.”
“...You have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you, because the present may be all you've got.”
“You've got to think of every talent you have, every gift you could give the world around you. And you've got to take the chance of giving it. (246)”
“Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.”
“You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.”
“There are so many people put there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me.”