“What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset?”

“Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”

“Offend the other candidates, because they’ll be too busy talking to hear you, and besides, they might not vote for you anyway.”

“He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?”

“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.”

“Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.”

“Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else.”

“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?”

“And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.”

“But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.”