"Because your existence in time and space is unique, there are lives that only you can touch."

"Please watch out for each other he says. Love everyone. Forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger, forgive your guilt, your shame, your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth and most especially your heart. Let us all have mercy on each and every one of us. And every day, we will open up like a cocoon and turn into beautiful butterflies and live this moment, and the next, and the next, and the next …"

"You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
How could you become new if you haven’t first become ashes?"

"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again"

"Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours."

"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe."

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

"Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing."

"Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore."