Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end.

I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated.

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

Lean forward into your life... catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.

When we have a circle of friends, we have more fun. We get more done, we feel and are stronger, and we really do celebrate the power of our 'us.'

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!

Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.

Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

For the first 30years of life, you keep learning. The rest of your life you keep unlearning what you had learnt

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence.

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

Here we are on the road. We must be going somewhere.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.