What do you resist examining up close?How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?

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.

You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you you hate it because you are afraid of it you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.

It is with our voices we remember, with our ears we understand.

This sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

I think probably anyone would say, the worst and the hardest things to deal with is when people say things that aren't true. Or that are kind of true but exaggerated.

Everything is the will of God - we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept.

We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from Iraq within 6 to 9 months - so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up and defend the opportunity given to them.

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

To be great is to assume great concerns.