“Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you…”

“I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it, and then you're never quite sure what your limits are.”

“You've been raised in limitation, but that glove never fit quite right.”

“So remember, if you're feeling bitter — or sorry for yourself about what you've done, and how much good you've accomplished — or if you find yourself more than anyone else talking about the good you've done, you're doing it for the wrong reasons, because it should be the default.”

“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

“If you have a faith, if you've some deep conviction, whether you're a Nazi or a Communist or what the hell else you are — then you can sacrifice yourself and others to your faith. But from the moment you've no faith — from that moment you live in a deep inner confusion — from then on you're exposed to what Strindberg calls 'the powers.”

“To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.”

“You've got to be kind to yourself
You've got to be kind to yourself”

“If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you'll give it all. And once you've lost yourself, haven't you lost everything?”

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”