“Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I’m master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell’s own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.”

“You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.”

“What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.”

“It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?”

“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. ”

“Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.”

“Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.”