Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: “I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.

May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself

Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world.

He also chooses his enemies.

It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.

Life is the train and not the station.

All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.