Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings.

Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularlyso every stretch won’t feel like your first.

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfyingrelationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for amarathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.

We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print.In the end, only action satisfies our longing.

To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust – not only of others but also, ourselves.

If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.

One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.

Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men's company, can only be acquired in women's.

I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.

For Christmas one year I bought my son a BB gun. He bought me a t-shirt with a bulls eye on the back.

Mentally, I'm not ever going to go away.

When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.