We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.

Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.

To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.

Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could.

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost.

Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.

I don't believe in guardian angels, " Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.

Worries flee before a spirit of gratitude.

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.

It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.