“You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.”

“What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change.”

“You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.”

“When you're young, you're afraid of being alone. Solitude is a burden and you try to escape from it. You always wonder when it's going to come to an end. Sometimes you can't get rid of it. At the age of 38, you use it in a different way. You've learned how to live with it, and you don't try to get rid of it by all means anymore. After all you may call this resignation, but I don't think it's harmful. You're not just standing there, in pain, asking yourself 'Why am I alone? Why don't I go out?' etc. You don't ask yourself these questions anymore. You adapt yourself. Living alone does not mean living in nothingness.”

“Retaliation gets you nothing. Revenge is worthless.”

“No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.”

“To me, feeling good about yourself as you get older is all about your attitude - if you think you're old, you'll feel old.”

“If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.”

“If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.”

“Pretending to feel differently than you actually feel is the same as lying to yourself. Lying to yourself does nothing to change your point of attraction; so it does nothing to improve your reality.”