“Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.”

“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”

“What you think you know don’t mean nothin.There is a difference between thinking and knowing. You might think you know something; you might even think you know it pretty well. But there are some things that you can’t ever know without having lived them. Without doing, thinking does not become knowing.”

“People say it all the time--'follow your heart.' What are we supposed to do--take our heart out and walk around behind it--follow it down the sidewalk to the mall? Your feet will lead you to your heart. Ha! "Maybe it just means you should know your heart, because if you know it, you might do what it says to do. I don't think it means you do whatever you damn well please. I don't think the heart speaks very loudly either--just tosses you hints and whispers.”

“Do you know what it means to have a whole day ahead of you, a day you can call your own?”

“It doesn't matter how wealthy you may be in material things, what matters is do you know what to do with those wealth?”