“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

“If you’re a revolutionary, you shouldn’t have started a family.”

“Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside… It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.”

“You can think: I have scored once, it’s enough,” he said. “You can lose focus, start freestyling. Or you can think I have scored once, so maybe I can score another. Is one enough, or do you want more? You need the button.”

“I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.”

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”

“For me, the Big Ride. You start when you’re born. You climb on the toboggan and then you’re off. But you can only have the one ride. No use telling the ticket-taker you want to go again. They shovel you under at the end of the slope and there’s a new lot of passengers waiting. You’ve had your three-score and ten. And it’s over.”

“If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.”