If you like me, I'll relish you. If you love me, I'll treasure you. If you hurt me, I'll DESTROY you.
It's a small world. You gotta use your elbows a lot.
If you let someone kick you once, they'll kick you once. If you let someone kick you three times, they'll kick you three times, but if you reach out and break that guy's foot, ain't no more kickin' gonna be goin' on.
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not.
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
Whatever it takes.
I think a lot of people look at me and say that I'm weird. But what I've noticed - and this used to worry me a lot when I was little - is that I don't know one normal person. I've never met one, actually. We all have our special, odd little things, and we should be proud of that.
It's the friends you can call at 4am that matter.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
We will either find a way, or make one.
Understand. I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: you come too.
There comes a time in everyone's life when you have to go forth and be vicious!
If you think back and replay your year, and it doesn't bring out tears of joy or sadness consider it wasted.
Don't necessarily play to win. Do play not to lose.
The danger of trying to tell people things is that they pick up on the facts they like and let the others take a running jump.
Nothing should be out of reach of hope. Life is hope.
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in it's hypocrisy demands.
Bygones.
A cause is not worth dying for. You only get one life, but you can pick up another five causes on any street corner.
Just when you're getting a grip on things, fate comes along and jumps on your fingers.
You don't make a soul strong by walking all over it. You make dents.
If you haven't got respect, you haven't got anything.
Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.
Personal isn't the same as important.
The path to wisdom begins with a single step. Where people go wrong is ignoring the thousands of other steps that come after it. They decide to become one with the universe and forget to do the things that would give it any kind of meaning.
Normality is what you make it.
The phrase 'someone ought to do something' is not, in itself, helpful. People never add 'and
that someone is me'.
Most people go through the world with their eyes shut and their brains set to 'simmer'.
Bad things don't only happen to bad people.
Never mind what should be, or what might be, or what ought to be. It's what things are that's important.
Don't sweat the small stuff, and remember, it's all small stuff.
To reject risk is to reject life.
Belief is a powerful thing.
Every day when I wake up, I ask myself if I am happy. Because if I don't, I forget that I am.
Better to burn out than fade away.
You never know your strength until you're tested.
In real life, no decision is clearly signposted. It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often well nigh impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose is sometimes - often - neck and neck.
You make your own timing. You only miss the moment if you don't seize it. Because you're too afraid of what might happen if you do.
Everybody is weak. Everybody fails. Being strong is fighting. It's hard and it's painful and it's every day. It's what we have to do.
Feel the fear, and do it anyway.
We cannot choose what we are; yet what are we but the sum of or choices?
We see everything through a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.
If you don't understand my silence, you can't understand my words.
Never apologize, never explain.
It's not too late. One day, it will be.
This is a fork in the road. It's just a choice. We can say, this is too hard, and quit. Or we can say, this is the bad part, the good part is just around the corner. We can decide we're going to make it.
Better die standing than live on your knees.
Yesterday is history. Tomarrow's a mystery. Today I'm still alive.
No-one's going to give you power. You have to take it.
Life is struggling to do the impossible - to succeed or die, knowing you have tried.
Never refuse an experience.
Doing the right thing can never be measured by the outcome of events. Judge yourself by what you do, not what happens afterwards.
Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not knows no release from little things, knows not the livid loneliness of fear, nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings.
In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter?
There's moments in your life that make you, set the course of who you're going to be. Sometimes they're little, subtle moments. Sometimes ... they're not. Even if you see them coming, you're never ready for the big moments. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. Nobody asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. The big moments will come, can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are ... who you will be.
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a timw to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
You do what you must and you have to walk it all alone.
Believe in fate, but lean well forward so she can see you.
Just go in there and remember - you're fantastic.
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
Avoid unpleasantness.
What do you want to remember?
No fear, no limits.
Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard.
Live dangerously. Always start from hope.
Nobody will give you power. You have to take it.