“As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.”

“One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought that was just the way life was. My life and everybody else's.”

“What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.”

“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. Slowly, I began to realize that I could not go back and force things to be as they once were: those two years, which up until then had seemed an endless inferno, were now beginning to show me their true meaning.”

“We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.”

“Some things stay forever, but most of the exercises, practices, and teachings end up disappearing down a black hole. Or so it seems.”

“Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.”