“Young people," McDonald said contemptuously. "You always think there's something to find out.""Yes, sir," Andrews said."Well, there's nothing," McDonald said. "You get born, and you nurse on lies, ...”

“I am a man, and as foolish and weak as most men; if I have had an advantage over my fellows, it is that I have known this of myself, and have therefore known their weaknesses, and never presumed to...”

“For my friends do not desert me, and life stays; for those two things I must be grateful.”

“He was himself, and he knew what he had been.”

“He tried to shape in his mind what he had to say to McDonald. It was a feeling; it was an urge that he had to speak. But whatever he spoke he knew would be but another name for the wildness that he...”

“A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.”

“Nature always waits in the wings and the winds, ready to pounce with all of its power just at that sloppily contented hour when you foolishly assume it to be plainly tired out. Narcissistic humans ...”

“You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other peoples happiness suffocate.”

“When motivation flows, people see work as interesting as music. They enjoy it till they do more than they could have done. Leaders motivate people to do greater things.”

“I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.”

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone wont either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are...”

“Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you”

“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”

“Self acceptance is a key factor in life.”

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”