“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”

“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”

“Thug Life to me is dead.”

“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”

“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'”

“Life itself is the proper binge.”

“Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”

“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”