I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

I didn’t know what I was supposed to say about that, so I just said, "Wow

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

You want a happy romantic relationship? Don’t ruin it by getting married.

I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy

I feel better when I am not around people. When I am alone, alone, alone.

It's said a friend is a person who walks in when everyone else walks out.

We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

Failure to make the tough but necessary choices means slow painful death.

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about.

We need to be willing to be comfortable with discomfort in order to grow.

The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.

Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.

The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.

Every human has a seed of greatness buried in a gift needed by the world.

A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.

Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

Every human being was created to dominate and lead in an area of gifting.

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

Life might hurt, might bruise, might forever scar, but it was for living.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

I have no wish to offend, but I do think that holy cows need challenging.

Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.

Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.

Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.

Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

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