To follow your life's guidance, you may have to reassign some seemingly important things to 'unimportant.' If you believe that pleasing your horrible boss or having a spotless house is a higher priority than playing with your children or sleeping off the flu, be prepared for a long and strenuous battle against destiny. Also, be prepared to lose.

My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.

Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.