And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny. We don't matter. We're here for a second and then gone the next. We're a sneeze in the life of the universe.

Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.

What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.