Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.

The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

A view of heaven from a seat in hell.

My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.

This life is full of trials and tribulations, so you have to capture humor whenever and wherever you can find it.

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.

Forthwith I crush this acid lemonFreeing myself of the malefic venomHither I let thee rottenLet my curse be forgotten.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

The person determined to love others will always find a way to do so.

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

Why did you say you believed me ?" In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered. "Because I trust you.

I know enough to know that no man is an island.

And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.

It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.