“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

“When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in.”

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”

“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy.”