“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?”

“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”

“That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.”

“Mark: I felt that you were singing it to your husband, but I'd suggest that you should block everyone else out and REALLY sing it to your man.”

“You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.”

“Memory is identity…. You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.”

“what you have to decide, is how you want your life to be. if your forever was ending tomorrow, would this b the way you'd want to have spent it?”

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”

“I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?”

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”