“People say I was made for thisNothin' else would I trade for thisAnd just think I get paid for this...”

“My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.”

“Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.”

“My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.”

“A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.”

“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother...”

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”

“The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)”

“Whatever it is that you want to do, do it today because you can handle the pain of trying hard now but you wont be able to handle the pain of regret later.”

“Word-Power'Being stuck in my room,I've become a world traveler.If you wonder how...just guess how I've reached you right now”

“Maybe you didn't want to get married, or get tied down?'Tsukuru shook his head. 'No, I don't think that was it. I'm the sort of person who craves stability.”

“When I get married, it'll be no secret.”