The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.

We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.

It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.

There is no formula to relationships.