“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them—not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Beautiful, beautiful. Magnificent desolation.

Count your age by friends, not years.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.