If there's going to be pain anyway, I'd rather it be the pain of growth rather than the pain of staying stuck.

They say that knowledge is power. I believe that is only partially true. Knowledge is power only if your Wise Self interprets how it relates to you.

We know how to work hard. We know how to go for the goal. We know how to achieve, achieve, achieve but we don’t know how to enjoy the journey.

If we fast forward through the journey, like Adam Sandler in the movie, Click, we’ll look up one day and see that we missed our lives.

Certainly, it’s wise to ask for counsel in whatever you endeavor to do. There is safety in that. But when the asking comes from a place of dependence, it is unhealthy.

I believe that purpose is not only a destination but it is the energy that pushes us toward its fulfillment.

Honoring your feelings awakens your soul. Feelings keep you awake. And it is from that awake place, that sound, that you build your life.

Dancing is about enjoying life. One of the hardest things for us to do is to dance.

Your humility is what secures your future and there is nothing like accountability partners who keep you real.

Men want to be known and loved for who they are by women.

I want to speak to the dream in your heart. That dream that has taken a backseat as you have strived to live up to something different.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

Trees are selfless, so all species thrive. If they were like humans, the world wouldn’t survive.

All I’m saying is that I don’t want to sort of fall in love with fifty different people. I’d rather find one person and fall completely, deeply in over my head.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts are examined from a fresh point of view.

...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

It usually takes me two to three days to practice and videotape a new piece but sometimes up to a week for more difficult ones.