We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

…the universe…sets out little signposts for us along the way, to confirm that we’re on the right path.” (p.XV)

Laughing is so therapeutic but what is even more therapeutic is having someone laugh out loud with you.

What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.

The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit on their cash and not spend it.

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

I was always one of these people who is irrationally moved by stupid pop songs.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.