"You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore never live in the present or the future. You live as if you’re never going to die and then die having never really lived."

"So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them."