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

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

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

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

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

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.

Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...

Each child is a new being, a potentialprophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light.... Whoare we to decide that it is hopeless (impossible)?

Out of one hundred random thoughts that pass through your mind, ninety-five are your brain's indirect responses (positive & negative) to what you believe others think of you.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.