Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularlyso every stretch won’t feel like your first.

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfyingrelationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for amarathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.

We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print.In the end, only action satisfies our longing.

To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust – not only of others but also, ourselves.

If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.

The study book for life’s tests is the whole of our experience. Though we mayfeel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them.

If I never meet you In this lifeLet me feel the lackA glance from your eyesThen my life Will be yours

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we'd now be speaking Russian.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Anything that can go wrong, will

and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.

[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.