“Naught but leaves brushed in the wind, stemming from the forest behind my house. Oh, and of course, the wildlife seized every chance to tell the stars who they were; they hooted, howled, and growle...”

“Fear is like a little germ in your head, allow it to grow and it takes over your all.”

“Money changes people. This process is more commonly known as trading.”

“Trial. (Fail.) (Succeed.) Repeat.”

“When you aim for the stars even if you fail youll be a falling star, and thats wish-fulfilling material.”

“Progress is hard, achievements are easy, and giving up is easier still.”

“Those who follow the flock, eat the shit, not the grass.”

“There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or...”

“Never prove people right. Never prove them wrong. Prove instead that you make your own path in life.”

“Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.”

“Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away,”

“What, more realistically, is this mutation, the new man? He is the rootless man, discontinuous with a past that Nihilism has destroyed, the raw material of every demagogues dream; the free-thinker ...”

“Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stociens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des ph...”

“There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found.”

“Each life involves an essential errand; not simply the task of survival, but a life-mission embedded in the soul from the beginning.”