“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.”

“We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.”

“Whether we call it ikigai or sense of purpose, when we pursue what we believe gives life meaning, it gives us life.”

“When we rise out of [the night] into the new life and there begin to receive the signs, what can we know of that which — of him who gives them to us? Only what we experience from time to time from the signs themselves. If we name the speaker of this speech God, then it is always the God of a moment, a moment God.”

“The Earth gives us life, not the American government. The earth gives us life, not the multi-national corporate government. The Earth gives us life. We need to have the Earth. We must have it, otherwise our life will be no more. So we must resist what they do.”

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

“We have to understand what sports is and what sports isn't and I think if we do that in the right way sports can come back appropriately that's what we want sports to come back appropriate and I think that's what the governor was eluding to this summer.”

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.”

“What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.”

“Aristotle once said that the unexamined life is not worth living. I think it's time to examine what we do once more in the spirit of a critical friend. Let's pause for a moment to consider what we need to examine.”