“But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.”

“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”

“Let's stop somebody from doing something!
Everybody does too much.”

“Love does not take away from one in order to give to another.”

“It doesn't matter what you do… so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”

“it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.”

“Truth does not require your painting, brother; it is itself beauty. Unfold it, and men will be captivated. Take your brush to set off the rainbow, or give a new tinge of splendor to the setting sun, but keep it away from the "Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley."”

“Your life is just about craving, and making something else tremendously more important than you.”

“Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.”

“We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?”