Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

With high hope and optimism, start swimming with time.

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.

[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and a good tilled earth.

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

If you're not willing to give up everything for Christ, are you willing to be made willing?

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

I value my health and my happiness. And I've realized exercise can give me both of those things.

I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.

Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.