That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

You build your life around what happens to you.

I am not afraid of being overpowered by the impression. It will pass away soon enough.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Life is like a bracelet...It has little jewels around it which are like the little bright moments that come along in our lives every now and then...