External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.

The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.

I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.

Most people think that once they've found their purpose and the power to practice it, they'll finally be at peace. Actually, though, it's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power. Peace is the first step and the final lesson we all need to learn.

This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.