Sometimes the reason that you’re suffering is because you won’t let go of the thing that’s biting you.

When you don’t know what to do, tell the truth.

Life isn’t supposed to be happy or fair. Life is supposed to be meaningful.

You should be a monster, an absolute monster, and then you should learn how to control it.

It’s worthwhile to go find the dragon in its lair instead of waiting for it to come and eat you.

Pursue what is meaningful and not what is expedient.

The meaning of your life may be sufficient to keep the corrupting influence of mortal despair at bay.

Violence, is no mystery. It’s peace that’s the mystery. Violence is the default. It’s easy. It’s peace that is difficult: learned, inculcated, earned.

You might love people despite their limitations, but you also love them because of their limitations.

You already know what you know, unless your life is perfect, what you know is not enough.

Good conversation is the best preparation for proper living.

I can live with no responsibility whatsoever, but the price I pay is that nothing matters. Or I can reverse it and everything matters, but I have to take the responsibility that is associated with that.

People think they think, but it’s not true. It’s mostly self-criticism that passes for thinking.

It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.

I don’t tell people they’re okay the way they are. No, I say you could be way more than you are.

I will trust you – I will extend my hand to you – despite the risk of betrayal, because it is possible, through trust, to bring out the best in you, and perhaps in me.

Truth will not come in the guise of opinions shared by others, as the truth is neither a collection of slogans nor an ideology. It will instead be personal.

That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.

Don’t practice what you don’t want to become.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.