“Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.”

“Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.”

“We are not strangers. Its a lack of trust that keeps us separated.”

“Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.”

“The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises.”

“In our ever-changing universe, lives collide, and, like runaway planets, we just keep going.”

“As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.”

“You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.”

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”

“If you pray, you can endure any pain.”

“We are shaped by every endured situation.”

“There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my...”