“Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.”

“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”

“I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.”

“At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light.”

“It shouldn't take a life-changing event to spark change in your life.”

“The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.”

“If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, youll keep resentment far away.”

“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”

“One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.”

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

“This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator that is what I once thought the world.”

“It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!”

“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”

“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels of this war have had too much of the strength, maturity and craftsmanship critics are looking ...”

“If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.”