“You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.”

“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”

“People are just gonna hate you for really stupid reasons sometimes. And you just gotta power over it. You just gotta brush it off. Be yourself. Be happy with who you are. And stop trying to please everybody else. Just be happy, don't take haters seriously.”

“He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.”

“If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.”

“The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.”

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

“Just by gazing upon her face…
No matter how weary you are,
you will feel happy,
deep inside your heart,
you will feel a warmth
This is a "piece of joy"
This is all the happiness you need.
Normally, we call this "love"…”

“So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.”

“When you get… to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.”