“Wouldn’t it be terrible if you’d spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do … and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you, you’d say, “Oh my God, I could have got so drunk…

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”

“Earlier in my life, I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I’ve grown older I’ve become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can’t see—the love…

“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what.”

“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”