You need to make time for family no matter what happens in your life.

Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn't bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights?

You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.

That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.

I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

I am so happy. I am so impossibly happy.

People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.