The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

We just had a near-life experience!

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.

You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.