“If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.”

“When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.”

“When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable.”

“The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done.”

“There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb.”

“I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.”

“Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones.”

“What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?”

“Frustration often steers you to the right path.”

“Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.”

“Ambition is a stairway that never ends.”