Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

Truth ever lovely - since the world began The foe of tyrants and the friend of man.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Love springs from awareness.

Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.

I probably have a different mental approach to swimming than most people. I actually enjoy training.

I don't really go out much at all. But there are times when I'm like, 'I gotta get out.' Then we go to Vegas, and we'll gamble.

When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.

If you are only born once, you will die twice. But if you are born twice, you will only die once.