“When you come that close to not being here, or being told they are going to take your foot off, it changes everything in your life.”

“Take your foot out of the graveyard,
they are busy being dead.”

“Be fully aware of your own being and you will be in bliss consciously. Because you take your mind off yourself and make it dwell on what you are not, you lose your sense of well-being, of being well. (…) True happiness is spontaneous and effortless. (..)”

“Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn’t be an ambition.”

“When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.”

“You'll change inside when you realize
The world comes to life and everything's bright
From beginning to end when you have a friend by your side.”

“All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.”

“You hate change. I hate it too. But things can't stay the same- and that's well, for when nothing changes in your life, it's as good as being dead”

“Go ahead and take your foot off the “civility” gas pedal for all I care. We should all be replacing it with “honesty”.”

“The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.”