If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach for it.

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t be easy was the whole point.

When life's got you down, keep your head up... you can't see the ground anyway

He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding, " and can wait God’s time for the rest.

In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

There are mothers that feel they made a mistake by having a kid at a very young age and they didn't get to live their life.

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.