Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

Sometimes, you simply must give yourself permission to fall apart.

The difference between the non-Christian and the Christian is that the non-Christian makes sin a practice

Death does not mark the end of a chapter in a man’s life, but the end of a book of man, the beautiful conclusion to his yearnings.

I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.

In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.

True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.