“We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.”

“See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.”

“If evil exists its to be found in our fears.”

“Then I realize that words like "optimism" and "hope" which appear in all those self-help books that claim they'll make us more confident and better to cope with life, are just that: words.”

“Ever have a dream so real you felt you could reach out and touch it?”

“The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (a...”

“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.”