Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.

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.

Perhaps it is worse when love has flowed freely to find it one day dammed.

What could you achieve if you took the energy you spend on things you cannot change and invested it in things you can.

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.

I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.

A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment.

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!