Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.