It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.

You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.

Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.

All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.

I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.