If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.

The trick is to begin looking for the grace hidden beneath the struggle.

Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.

When it hurts to look back, and you're afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.