"If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived."

"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear."

"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."

"If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both."

"Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it."

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."