I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform.

Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?

Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness.

If you do not ask yourself what it is you know you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.

Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?

Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the planet to teach us how to live.

Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs.

I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.