Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.

Like Salvador Dali’s paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you’re on vacation in a foreign country.

Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don’t make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind you.

Out here on the water, it’s a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.

Instead of falling, I am dancing with the wind.

Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.

If there’s a takeaway from working here, it’s an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.

Lucid dreams often feel like this—as if you are observing yourself from a point over your shoulders-arm flexed, hands curving around the boom, breathing, in three dimensional silence.

There are two kinds of special events: planned and unplanned.

Inside, my spirit is sparkling like foam on the crest of a wave at high tide under a full moon.

Swirling around my ears, the wind and I whooping at the sea, picking up speed, breathing it all in. An act of loving life.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life, ' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.

Frequently, the difference between success and failure is the resolve to stick to your plan long enough to win.

On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

Silent customers can be deadly. Encourage them to complain.

No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so. ~ Inferno

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.