Sometimes our dreams are affirmed in the most unlikely ways by the mostunlikely people. That’s why we need to speak our commitment out loud.

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.

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.

Even the broken will fight

Passion creates, addiction consumes.

The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.

I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart?

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.