“Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.”

“If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.”

“We don't fit in well 'cause we are just ourselves”

“We don't fit in well 'cause we are just ourselves”

“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”

“You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.”

“We are all carrying so many things in our life and inside ourselves. Often it feels there is no place to put them down. Where do you place the questions you carry”

“I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.”

“We all start out looking at life from the particular perspective of our upbringing, which provides us with assumptions about who we are. For most of us, this culturally imparted point of view simply remains our perspective as we move through life.”

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”