most of our worries are not worth a worry

"Nobody's gonna remember the numbers when I'm not alive."

I don't care enough to doubt them.

"History is the projection of ideology into the past."

"No man will keep to himself what he hears. No one will tell another only as much as he has heard. And he who tells tales will tell names, too. Everyone has someone to whom he entrusts exactly what has been entrusted to him. Though he checks his own garrulity, and is content with one hearer, he will bring about him a nation, if that which was a secret shortly before becomes common talk."

I'm just a collection of mirrors, reflecting what I expect everyone else to expect of me.

"If you sum up what people tell you about their experiences, you can formulate it this way: They came to themselves, they could accept themselves, they were able to become reconciled to themselves."

"If you pray a thing may,
and it does come your way,
it is a long way from being your own."

"I cannot boast that I waste nothing, but I can at least tell you what I am wasting, and the cause and manner of the loss; I can give you the reasons why I am a poor man. My situation, however, is the same as that of many who are reduced to slender means through no fault of their own: every one forgives them, but no one comes to their rescue. What is the state of things, then? It is this: I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him."

“I can show you a philtre, compounded without drugs, herbs, or any witch’s incantation: ‘If you would be loved, love.’”

"When you're different, your heart is open to a little ache. But remember: when you're different, you might capture all the stars, but the whole world will not rally around you, but you have a chance of having them notice you.
So go home at night, put your head on a pillow, and thank God for what you've attained. [...] To all of you, I wish you what I have [...]:
people around you, who care."