The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.

If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.

It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go.

You don't have to be fearless. Just be sincere.

The secret to success: Do what you say you're going to do.

Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.

First. get clear on how you want to feel. Then, do stuff that makes you feel that way.

We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is.

Shift your energy from protecting yourself from failure to squeezing the life out of life.

The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.

The world under your feet is changing & you never noticed, it's on you. If you're changing & the world failed to notice, it's not on you...

No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.

The Munay-Ki is your invitation to dream an entire new world into being.

Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free

What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.

And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.