When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Zookeeper foible #1: Tendency to not equate fur and scale with fracture and scar.

There is great stuff waiting for you on the other side of fear.

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.

Winning often teaches you about losing and losing often teaches you about winning and a lot of things also happen by luck and you have to be at the right place at the right time.

As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.

I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.