It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.

There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.