It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set out to defeat it. So, naturally, the mountain fights back and it is stronger than you are. We do not see the mountain as our enemy to be conquered. The purpose of our climb is to become one with the mountain and so it lifts us up and carries us along.

Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared. Life is not a resource to be used up, so that the older we get, the less life we have left. Life is the accumulation of wisdom, love and experience of people encountered and obstacles overcome. The longer we live, the more life we possess.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.