“Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Liveto learn.”

“The mother of all the skills is to learn the art of paying attention—Remembering every step you make or anything that’s around you.”

“Responsibility is a must; if you fail to be responsible, you are still responsible for your failure.”

“Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.”

“You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.”

“It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else falling in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”

“It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.”

“Responsibility is the cornerstone of awakening. Essentially, what responsibility is, is owning your own life. To become responsible is to step into this ability and chose to both create and respond to your life instead of to passively react to it as if it is happening to you. It is stepping into authority over yourself.”

“It’s okay to be a responsible member of society if only you know what you’re going to be held responsible for.”

“Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.”