“Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.”

“When you are around people who are really suffering, you get to experience some of their suffering and that can make you stronger in your faith.”

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”

“Mmmm, as I recall, if you go around telling people that they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden, but nevertheless -- people being who they are -- don't want to know. They can get quite nasty about it.”

“That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.”

“You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.”