"Small minds complain about the issues, average minds discuss the issues, but large minds solve the issues."

"Perfect is imperfect, and imperfection is purity."

"To square the circle is mathematically impossible, but to cube the oblate spheriod is formidable.

"Always the shelf, never the book."

"Love isn't done right unless it hurts."

"A dream is where a wish and a fear meet, and when the wish and the fear are the same thing, we call the dream a nightmare."

---from 'Shantaram' by Gregory David Roberts.

"Everyone attempts suicide at least three times in their lives...and eventually we all succeed."

"Music conveys emotion in every language in the universe. If it needs words to convey emotion, it is NOT music."

"In our lives, we all have three teachers, three friends, and three great loves, but we never know who they are, for they are disguised in the most complex mask the world can form."

It's not always a bad thing to be broken. When something's broken you get to see what's inside.