Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.