“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.”

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”

“If you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life.”

“It takes time to learn to live in the here and now. You have to hang on past the bad times, ... If you do hang on and do not run from your life you discover that you have more control of your thoughts and feelings, and your life, than you believed possible. You learn to quiet your frantic mind, to downgrade your expectations of things and people, find pleasure in solitude, and finally discover who you really are.”

“When something in your life doesn't please youYou can decide to hang your head and feel blueOr you can use your powerful mind as a treasureTo convert your present pain into future pleasure”

“Victor smiled through the pain and the blood. "Of course you have. I used to think Belikov was the savage one, but it's really you, isn't it? You're the animal with no control, no higher reasoning except to fight and kill.”