“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”

“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”

“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”

“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”

“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”

“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”

“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”

“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”

“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”

“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”