This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.

There is no answer to any of these questions. It's a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing in and breathing out. It's a matter of balance.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.