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

"The idea that you can just be an intellectual without being grounded in reality is a very dangerous idea."

"You're going to suffer. You're going to die. But in between, you have a chance to do something worthwhile."

"You can't just be happy. You have to be strong. You have to be courageous. You have to be able to bear the burden of being alive."

"The world is divided into order and chaos, and you have to navigate between them."