It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

The way to tell if your job is done: if you're alive, you've got a job.

Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.