“You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.”

““Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person’s time line sideways till they all coincide.”

“You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become… You are not your past!”

“Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.”

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”

“If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!”

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

“I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.”

“We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?”

“To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.”