Risk: no full life occurs without it.

Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularlyso every stretch won’t feel like your first.

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfyingrelationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for amarathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.

We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print.In the end, only action satisfies our longing.

To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust – not only of others but also, ourselves.

If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.

The study book for life’s tests is the whole of our experience. Though we mayfeel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them.

One of the greatest skills—and gifts—is to focus on a person. Make them feel as though they’re the only person in the world.

We just make music. For I never stop working.

Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

There is only one Islam, and that is a totalitarian ideology that has no room for anything but Islam.

The happier the moment the shorter.

One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.

There are not that many people in the movies today that really make me go out and buy a movie ticket.

The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.