Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Vulnerability is like a connector... it connects you to the rest of the world.

A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future.