What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day.

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.