With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

There's so much to learn! And just when we think, "I've got it. I really understand what's going on," we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are cynical about the world. "The world is no damn good, and we're all animals," and that kind of thing. Well, I'm an animal.

The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.