I believe that living out loud and not letting fear hold you back is the key to the fullest, most rewarding life possible

The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.

Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.

Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

Don’t go looking for trouble; it’s already looking for you.

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

It is charming to totter into vogue.

In this life, you have to risk big to win big.

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]