I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.

You should always be careful of what you say in parting.