"Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have."

"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."

"For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in a fourth function of outsideness – that in every generation there are a few souls, call them lucky or cursed, who are simply born not belonging, who come into the world semi-detached, if you like, without strong affiliation to family or location or nation or race; that there may even be millions, billions of such souls, as many non-belongers as belongers, perhaps; that, in sum, the phenomenon may be as “natural” a manifestation of human nature as its opposite, but one that has been mostly frustrated, throughout human history, by lack of opportunity. And not only by that: for those who value stability, who fear transience, uncertainly, change, have erected a powerful system of stigmas and taboos against rootlessness, that disruptive, anti-social force, so that we mostly conform, we pretend to be motivated by loyalties and solidarities we do not really feel, we hide our secret identities beneath the false skins of those identities which bear the belongers’ seal of approval. But the truth leaks out in our dreams; alone in our beds (because we are all alone at night, even if we do not sleep by ourselves), we soar, we fly, we flee. And in the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the non-belongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.What we forbid ourselves we pay good money to watch, in a playhouse or a movie theater, or to read about between the secret covers of a book. Our libraries, our palaces of entertainment tell the truth. The tramp, the assassin, the rebel, the thief, the mutant, the outcast, the delinquent, the devil, the sinner, the traveler, the gangster, the runner, the mask: if we did not recognize in them our least-fulfilled needs, we would not invent them over and over again, in every place, in every language, in every time."

"Tough times never last. Tough people do"

"I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve come to learn that predictions don’t mean much. Too much lies outside the realm of medical knowledge. A lot of what happens next comes down to you and your specific genetics, your attitude. No, there’s nothing we can do to stop the inevitable, but that’s not the point. The point is that you should try to make the most of the time you have left."

"These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb."

"I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure"

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

"Too many locks, not enough keys."

"Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared"

"Man is, that he may have Joy."

"If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower."

"Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become."

"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change."

"What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality."

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step."

"A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise."

"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."

"Survivors can't always choose their methods."

"you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!"

"Live your life, no matter what that life is."

"Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden."