I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.

Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

You've got to find the force inside you.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.