“We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us.”

“Climb every mountain , Ford Every stream Follow every rainbow ,'Till you find your dream”

“Books are no longer read but eaten, not made of paper but of some informational substance, fully digestible, sugar-coated.”

“I stretch my arms out — Let the truth be told These days, friends are modern day Pinocchios Long nose, friend or foe They're more fake than the wax statues standing still in Madame Tussaud.”

“Happiness seeps into me when you're around, Rico. Without invitation, without notice, joy finds me. Being around you is being alive, it's breathing, it's home.”

“You're already breaking your promise. A promise isn't what you say. It's what you do.”

“Why are we living? Because we are born! Why are we born? Because we have to live!.”

“When the suffering begins, our brain pleads with us to not think too far into the future. I can’t endure 60 minutes of this, but I can do 10 minutes. I can’t get through 8 weeks of solid exercise, but I can get through today. The neurological beauty of segmentation is that once the segment is completed, you get a mini-squirt of dopamine (pleasure juice) that resets the coping clock.”