Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.

Even if one doesn't smoke pot, one has to see the benefits of decriminalizing it.

...the West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government.

I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.

If I could put one word on my journey over the last couple of years it would definitely be ‘turbulent’.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.