Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees.

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

You raze the old to raise the new.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

A company builds its success and becomes popular with its unique appearance and identity

A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.

It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

I like to allow accidents to happen, not to force them, and yet not let myself feel miserable if they do happen, because they are so often the best things.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.

God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'