It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

There is no place love is not.

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.