“There can be a hundred people in the room and ninety nine don't believe in you and just one person believes in you and it can change everything.”

“One time in a hundred a gun might save your life; the other ninety-nine it will just tempt you into folly.”

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.”

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

“The PLAYSTATION3 will retail for Five-Hundred-Ninety-Nine US Dollars.”

“That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.”

“You don't have to believe in my miracles. You can call them accidents or coincidences, if you must. But don't pity me for my faith. And don't presume that you're better, just because you believe something different.”

“Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.”

“Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.”

“When I was at school, on certain afternoons we all had to do what was called Labour — weeding, sweeping, sawing logs for the boiler-room, that sort of thing; but if you had a chit from Matron you were let off to spend the afternoon messing about in the Art Room. Labour or Art. And you've got a chit for life? Where did you get it? What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who's the artist.”