One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

Often things are as bad as they seem.

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)

Music is the only language which can be understood by everyone—even a tree can understand music.

A non-GMO Mom is an avid researcher, a conscientious protector, and the most effective teacher of natural health.

With a beaming face celebrate the joyful day and rest not therein. For no one can take away his goods with him. Yea, no one returns again, who has gone hence.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.

It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others