If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you

The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting for you to slow down and open up so that it can speak to your consciousness. In some unguarded moment, you will hear its wildly improbable words and know that they are guiding you home.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.